Whats the diffrence betwen SATA and Not sata?
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SATA is abbreviation from Serial ATA. The old connection from hard disk to mother board is using Ultra ATA where you acccess one hard disk one at a time. So if there are two hard disks, the mother board will switch one another to read datas from the hard disk.\nHowever, using the SATA Hard disk, with SATA connectors and SATA supported motherboard, the motherboard can get the data from two hard disk simultaneously. Therefore SATA hard disk will be faster than Ultra ATA or IDE hard disk. (With condition that there are 2 hard disks at once).\nOtherwise, if there is only one hard disk... can't really tell the difference. But I believe the SATA is better since it is newer.
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The SATA specification is reverse compatible. And you will not need to play with jumpers to achieve this.\n\nSeagate helped to pioneer SATA and released the first SATA drive. They have a wealth of reading material on their site.
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hmmm. I dont quite follow that response but it strikes me as fairly well informed..\n\nIf you are attempting to put this in a computer that already works you may need to install specific drivers for the sata connection, if they were not installed by default when you installed the motherboard drivers and such. If you did not have this drive in when you installed windows, it may not have installed the storage drivers...\n\nI was thinking you may need the large drive support drivers but I am not sure. I believe that is over 137 gigs.\n\nbelow is a link to the drivers that may make it work.\n\nex. If I dont have my scsi drivers on a floppy, windows can't see the drive to install it during my windows install. \nBefore you try this I would go to windows update and see it it offers storage drivers as well.\nhope this helps.
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check your Linux's distro, if compatible to using SATA hard drive, then you can install like usual you install windows, also set your motherboard to detect the SATA hard drive. Mostly, Linux's Distro at this time using GUI instalation, so it's not hard to install to hard drive
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It doesn't have to be the EXACT same drive.  In reality it doesn't even have to be the same size.  BUT it is recommended they be the same type/size for best performance and to eliminate "waste".  What does need to be identical is the partition sizes on both drives. Another 7200rpm 160MB SATA HDD would be recommended in your case.
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You would need a new system. Your motherboard most probably does not use SATA.  By a new system I mean new motherboard, hard drive, memory, and of course CPU. All the other stuff you can simply transfer over, like cd or dvd drives, video & sound cards. Most of the new comps can handle up to 2gigs of DDR Ram. It might be a good idea to invest in a new system that is Microsoft Vista ready.
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latops have special hard drives, search computer websites, such as newegg, and find laptop hard drives, that support sata 150, this is the kidn dat works with dell inspiron 6000\nbut the rband does not make a difference, in fact go for a hitachi or a toshiba
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You can only install a Serial ATA drive on a computer that has a driver on the motherboard, or you'll have to buy a drive controller card. You can install a SATA as an extra drive as long as you have a hardware controller for it.
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The main difference between SATA and PATA is the interface, not the hard drive.\n\nMany models from Maxtor, Western Digital, and other manufacturers are available as both SATA and PATA drives, and perform roughly the same in both.  However, SATA usually comes with more features like NCQ (Native Command Queueing) that can improve performance.  Plus as the others have said, SATA has smaller cables that don't restrict as much air flow inside your case (and can add a pretty cool look if you care to have it).\n\nBut don't let the marketing hype fool you.  Just because a hard drive is SATA doesn't mean it's going to be faster than any PATA drive.  In fact, it's hardly noticeable even if it is.  The only time it's makes more sense to have SATA is when adding multiple drives to a PC to form a RAID array (google search it).  Arrays involving multiple hard drives can use the extra breathing room that SATA provides.\n\nA car travelling down a 2-lane highway isn't going to get from point A to point B any faster than it would on a 4-lane highway if there was no traffic.  Multiple cars might.  That's another way to look at it...
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If it's simply a mother board issue and the drive is still in good shape there should be no problem with installing the drive in another system to retrieve the data. \n\nIf you're not familar with doing this i probably wouldn't recommend you trying it as there are many places where things can go wrong and you could possible kill the working system you're trying to install the drive into.\n\nI'd suggest taking it to a tech shop (such as geek squad) and have them get the data off for you they'll probably charge you around $100 but it's worth it to know it will be done properly and safely.
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Aint gonna do you much good if you dont have a sata drive to put in it!
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You will get the right answer from the vendor when you buy a new hard drive by giving the following details.\n\n1.The make and model of the motherboard and\n2.The version of Windows you are  using.\n\nAll new hard disks now come with SATA (serial ATA) connection.  The preferred speed is 7200 rpm but for laptops many people settle for lower speed of 5000 rpm since they are cheaper.\n\nOld motherboards like Socket 7 can recognize hard disks with maximum 20GB capacity in LBA mode in 2-5GB capacity running Windows 98SE. \n\nWhen you use Windows 98, disk fragmentation in partitions with only 2GB capacity can be be done faster than the larger size partitions of 3-5GB. \n\nLatest motherboards like ASUS P4V8X-X running Windows XP can read large capacity hard disks. The speed depends on the RAM. Older SD RAMs are slower but DDR RAM modules run much faster.\n\nAll external hard drives are recognized instantly by Windows XP but you have to install a driver if you are using Windows 98SE.\n\nWhen you buy a new hard disk, you must always ask for the vendor's confirmation about the compatibility by giving the version of Windows you are using and also the motherboard maker's model number. Otherwise, you may have difficulty getting the replacement.
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THERE PRETTY CLOSE ON SOME BENCHMARKS GO WITH ONE RAP ONE SATA RAID 1 IF U DONT GAME GO WITH ATHLON X2 GREAT CHIP I HAVE 4200 BUT THEY HAVE 3800 CLOSE TOO THE SAME PRICE AS YOUR 3700 AT NEWEGG.COM
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the short answer is the HD you have will connect to the motherboard you have.\n\nthe long answer is that there are 2 standards of connectors\n\nSata = Serial ATA \nPata = Parallel ATA used to be called only ATA before the pata was introduced few years ago.\n\ndevice that is not clearly marked sata is most probably pata.\n\n[edit]\n\nthe best speed of read and write you will get from sata 2 which is 300 MB/S.\n\nA good solution will be to connect 2 HDD in what is called raid 0 (striping)
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The important thing to ask is, what hd will your  motherboard and power supply support.\n\nThe 6vxc7 does not support SATA, so you need to get an IDE hard drive. It doesnt matter what brand or capacity, you'd need an IDE drive, not a SATA drive.\n\nOr you can get a SATA drive with a converter, check the link. But best go with the IDE
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Sure, I run 3 SATA drives and 2 PATA drives, no problemo. Needless to say, your motherboard must have a SATA port on it or you need to buy some sort of controller.
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A hard drive is an independent interface although an essential one for a PC to be able to work.\n\nAny hard drive in any computer is replaceable... from servers to desktops to laptops. However any motherboard of the PC has a defined capability to handle a hard drive. Some older PCs, Servers or Laptops may not support the present day available hard drives. So check the compatibility. \n\nThere have been various technologies like IDE E-IDE SCSI as interface standards for PCs. Now if your Laptop has an interface for IDE and not E-IDE then the new hard drive u install will be ok for IDE. But if you use the E-IDE hdd then it might just address 8.6 GB and not higher. At the same time there are devices to bridge these gaps too. However the possbilities of complicated additions in a laptop are limited\n\nAs suggested by someone if replacement of interfaces such as HDD cost a fortune then you might as well buy a new equipment. \n\nAll the best.... and happy upgrading