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Need help on upgrading a harddrive.
    #15219766 - 10/13/11 02:27 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

My harddrive now
My motherboard now (lists confection types available)

The new harddrive i want

From the specs it will work, what do you think? and mainly do i have the type of wires/connections to plug it into my MB?

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Re: Need help on upgrading a harddrive. [Re: LoveOverAll]
    #15219941 - 10/13/11 02:53 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

They are both SATA, so yes you have the cables you will need (if you are doing a replacement, as opposed to adding a second drive).

If you're adding it as a second drive you'll need an additional SATA cable.


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Re: Need help on upgrading a harddrive. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #15220032 - 10/13/11 03:10 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)



The specs on my MB say ESATA if thats any difference from SATA, either way the plugs i have now look like PATA, see what i mean?

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Re: Need help on upgrading a harddrive. [Re: LoveOverAll]
    #15220133 - 10/13/11 03:26 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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The specs on my MB say ESATA if thats any difference from SATA, either way the plugs i have now look like PATA, see what i mean?




No. I don't see what you mean. That's clearly an SATA connector. It even has SATA clearly printed on the connector itself.

PATA uses a ribbon cable. SATA uses the 4 wire cable as shown in your photo.

ESATA stands for External SATA. You would need an ESATA external drive (as opposed to a USB drive, for example) to use that.


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Re: Need help on upgrading a harddrive. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #15220203 - 10/13/11 03:37 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Any Vista gen. motherboard with 775 will support SATA I(most likely II also), but your HDD won't ever come close to saturating the b/w of SATA I.  To get the best improvement as far as load times go, getting yourself something like WesternDigital Caviar Blacks or 7200RPM 32+mb cache Hitachi's to put in RAID 0. 

You can get tons of storage space and really speed up boot times.  I have a GA-EP35C-DS3R that has a Wolfdale (E8400 or some shit) Intel cpu, and I'm still using WD VelociRaptors bought in 2004.  In RAID 0 Vista boots so much faster than one 5400/7200rpm drive alone.


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Re: Need help on upgrading a harddrive. [Re: 5HTSynaptrip]
    #15220250 - 10/13/11 03:44 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

I didn't think people actually admitted to using Vista.


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Re: Need help on upgrading a harddrive. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #15220293 - 10/13/11 03:51 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Yea, I only buy OEM versions of Windows since they last the life of my PC.  Never had any problems with Vista since I dropped a lot of money on the new hardware at the time.  It's still sporting the CoolerMaster WaveMaster from 04, I modded the side-panel for 2 extra 120mm fans since there is zero airflow through that POS. :lol: 80mm fans all around...


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Re: Need help on upgrading a harddrive. [Re: 5HTSynaptrip]
    #15220368 - 10/13/11 04:00 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)



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