Hard Disks ATA and IDE

[(RIP) willstatt]

My Hard Drive has gone tits up.

It's a Western Digital WD800 which is an 80 gig IDE drive.

Do I HAVE to replace that with an IDE drive.

What is EIDE; ATA; SATA; Caviar; etc. etc. and are any all of them compatible?

Will

 

[ianf]

ide / ata are essentially the same thing. parallel ATA.

sata is serial-ata - same commands, different physical interface sends stuff serially to avoid skew. - you probably don't have this on the motherboard or they'd have added a sata drive already.

You want an equivalent Ide/ata drive. Not sure who's the best at the moment price wise, but as long as it's a Seagate/WesternDigital/Hitachi it'll be fine.

Take the old drive along with you to the shop, the only slightly dodgy thing about IDE is the >100mhz ones have balanced cables and twice as many pins.

 

[cookie]

i'd get something from here

http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/department?department=4&sort=0&filterId=16&filterValue=IDE