I have a Dell XPS that has sata hard drives in it. I believe they are 3.5"? Will this drive connect to a standard Sata cable?
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It will connect to a standard SATA cable carrying signal and power. Mechanical mount is another thing. I put this in an Apple Mac Pro, but got a mechanical adapter for the slide in disk carrier from a 3rd party vendor. Electrically, no problem.
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Yes. Swapped mine in/out with old spinning platters as part of drive cloning/rebooting. Did this with my XPS 630i, but found there was no way to do AHCI on the 630i. SSD still worked, but not at full speed, & I was concerned re: adverse impact on drive longevity, so it turned out to be time to build a new machine, too.
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Normal SSD's, like the SanDisk Extreme, plug into typical SATA connectors and power connectors. They do not normally come with special mounting brackets to adapt them to a 3.5" drive bay. Some drive bays have screw hole alignments and screws for mounting SSD's, or even special smaller form factor bays for them. Plus you can just buy a cheap mounting bracket. I have even taped an SSD to a drive bay before.
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The Dell Dimension uses a standard ATX, so this should be sufficient. The connectors will look different that plug into the motherboard. You may want to get a molex adapter for older hardware though. Here is an example of one. NSI LK-13814 15-pin SATA Male To 4-pin Molex Female Power Adapter Cable - 15 Pin SATA Male To 4 Pin Female Power Cable For IDE Hard Drive - 6inches (15cm)
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The SATA connector for 1.8" drive is non-standard. One will need to get an adapter to convert to standard 2.5". The best-cost effective method would be using a mSATA to SATA adapter with a standard 2.5" housing.
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Yes it will work fine. I like the way it's answered on this page: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/19253643.aspx Keep in mind that when the person asking says 3gb drive he means sata 3.
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It's a standard SATA connector on a SATA III cable. If the drive has a SATA plug, then probably. A lot will depend on how the drive and mobo is mounted in the case. Sometimes you need 90 degree connectors and other times straight. Cable length is usually not an issue.
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Most of these have the same size, it should work. I have one on a Dell Precision 340, had no trouble, be aware that it has more connectors of a newer type than the ones used on say, normal SATA hard disks or CD/DVD units. Worked for me with 0 problems, jsut check if it has all the connectors you require.
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You need a standard SATA cable, not E-SATA cable up to level 3.0. you only need to order one that's long enough for your installation.
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Yes, the Western Digital Bare Drive 320GB WD Blue SATA III 5400 RPM Drive should easily fit your Dell XPS. If you desire to clone the operating system and data from your current drive, I recommend choosing a Samsung or Seagate hard drive because the cloning software provided by Western Digital is less than desirable. Samsung and Seagate provide excellent cloning software with their drives If you will be reinstalling the operating system from a backup CDs or DVD, this drive should work nicely.
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The sata connection should be the same but you will need adapter to hold the 2.5 drive in place.
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The sata connectors will all be on a chain together, look on your hard drive and see the connector that is the largest slot? Find the cables that match the shape of the connector, remember don't force it too much, make sure you are inserting it the right way
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If your old hard drive is the 2.5 inch laptop size hard drive and have a SATA 1, SATA 2, or SATA 3 connector, then it should work.If your old hard drive is from a desktop, (3.5 inch ), it is too big for this enclosure.SATA connectors have a combination 7 pins for data separated by a spacer for 15 pins for power. Wikipedia have a nice pic of the SATA connector that this enclosure will support. Hope that helps you.
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1st make sure those are 2.5" slots, SSD size slots, and not 3.5". If they are 3.5" you'll need the SSD adapter to make it bigger and fit the slot. You will need to buy a cable, if you do not already have one. You'll need it for a SATA connection. The drives I got were barebones and just contained the drives and a few documents and nothing else.
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Yes indeed, it takes a 2.5" SATA connection. This is the SSD I bought to put in my system about 4 months ago, no issues: Kingston Digital 120GB SSDNow V300 SATA 3 2.5 (7mm height) Solid State Drive (SV300S37A/120G)
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SATA 2.5 (laptop drives) work with this, SATA 3.5 (desktop computer hard drives) you need the bigger enclosure they also sell on amazon. I used this with my Playstation 3 hard drive. If you have the hard drive out already it should be about 2.5 inches width, if you bought it somehwere they should list it in the info in the specs.
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I am not familiar with the Dell specs, but just make sure it supports SATA drives, for the physical connection. If you are using a current OS (Windows 7 or better) then you should be okay. At worse you may need a driver or firmware update.
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Yes. I installed TWO of these drives into my Dell 8700. Assuming you have an open hard drive (HDD) bay, you'll need a SATA cable to connect the drive to your motherboard and 2.5" mounting tray such as: Silverstone Tek 3.5-Inch to 2 X 2.5-Inch Hard Drive HDD SSD Bay Converter.