New Hard Drive HELP!
Wednesday, March 15, 2006 by koadansc | Discussion: PC Hardware
Reply #2 Thursday, March 16, 2006 12:36 AM
Reply #3 Thursday, March 16, 2006 12:47 AM
You'll possibly need both, unless you already had them with your MoBo.
SATA ribbons and power connectors are different to the standard parallel IDE devices...
Reply #4 Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:17 AM
| SATA ribbons and power connectors are different to the standard parallel IDE devices |
But most SATA drives also have the older power connectors so that's not an issue as much as the data cable.
Reply #5 Saturday, March 18, 2006 9:48 AM
| But most SATA drives also have the older power connectors |
That's simply a legacy/transitional thing...
Reply #6 Saturday, March 18, 2006 9:59 AM
Reply #7 Saturday, March 18, 2006 11:52 AM
| SO, if you have a laptop with say an IDE hardrive and you buy an OEM, do you need cables to attach it or can you use what is already in place? |
Laptops do not require cables typically to connect hard drives. You just place the hard drive where your old one was and slide it into place.
Reply #8 Saturday, March 18, 2006 11:56 AM
| That's simply a legacy/transitional thing |
Yah, but I've bought several SATA devices and an SATA RAID card and the card came with power splitters that took 1 4-pin molex connector and split it into 2 of the new SATA connectors and all of the SATA hard drives I've seen have both the SATA power connectors and the molex connectors and they probably will for the forseeable future. Not that it will matter once more power supplies come with the SATA power connectors standard.
Reply #9 Saturday, March 18, 2006 5:17 PM
| SO, if you have a laptop with say an IDE hardrive and you buy an OEM, do you need cables to attach it or can you use what is already in place? |
Remember to remove the "Jumper/Adapter" from the back of the old drive, and connect it to the new drive pins (paying attention to how it is connected on the old drive pins). It should be easy to identify the adapter, and the jumper setting by viewing the back of the old drive as soon as you remove it.
The jumper/adapter allows the drive to connect to the IDE bus adapter, and tells the MoBo what the drive is set to, which will in turn allow the drive to be recognized in the BIOS.
You will also need to create a "Primary" partition to enable recognition in BIOS (usually with a utility like "FDisk", PartitionMagic", or a manufacture supplied utility), and to allow the Windows OS installation disc to see the partition and format it for the OS. This utility will be run either via a floppy drive connected to the notebook, or by running the utility from CD - making sure to set the boot sequence to allow booting from the floppy or CD first.
Reply #10 Saturday, March 18, 2006 6:15 PM
| and all of the SATA hard drives I've seen have both the SATA power connectors and the molex connectors and they probably will for the forseeable future. |
Yes, that's what is meant by 'transitional'...
However, not ALL that I have seen have both.
Adapters will 'always' be available...but the two-choices-of-connector drives will definitely not...
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Reply #1 Wednesday, March 15, 2006 11:18 PM
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
mother board:
2 SATA connectors Supports. 1 Serial ATA-150 disk drive on each connector
looks like a match to me.
you'll have to find a set of cables because thats an OEM drive and you don't get cables with those!