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Posted by RocketMan on December 15, 2005, 12:04 am
Please log in for more thread options Thanks for the advice, Barry.
I have installed the hard drive, and are VERY pleased with it! Quiet!!
Fast! Heaps of space! What more could you want?!!
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RocketMan
> The advice was BS. So what if the laptop doesn't support ATA-6; all of
> the drives are backwards compatible. And there is no "compatability" for
> rotational speed.
>
> Your only possible issues are:
>
> -Power consumption (and heat generation)
> -Can the laptop handle a 100GB drive [VERY unlikely to be a problem]
>
> You shouldn't have any problems
>
>
> RocketMan wrote:
>
>> Eighteen months ago I bought a laptop, which I am now wanting to
>> upgrade the hard drive on.
>> The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A30 (P4 3.06HT, 512KB L2 cache,
>> 533MHz FSB, 40GB HD, 768MB RAM, DVD-R-RW etc.). After speaking to a
>> technician about upgrading the hard drive to a Seagate ST910021A notebook
>> drive (100GB, 7200rpm, 8MB cache, ATA-6/100), I was advised to check that
>> my laptop was capable of 'accepting' that drive, i.e. ATA-6/100 &
>> 7200rpm. The technician said that I should be able to find that
>> information on the Toshiba website.
>> I have downloaded the pdf file for my laptop, but have been unable to
>> find the information I require. Can anyone help? I live and bought the
>> laptop in New Zealand, if that is of any help.
>> TIA.
>>
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