Laptop Hard Drives

Started by Atomm · 22 posts · 2,545 views

  1. #1
    I need to get a new hard drive for my laptop. How do I tell if I have an ATA-6 or ATA100 or ATA150?

  2. #2
    Atomm wrote:
    I need to get a new hard drive for my laptop. How do I tell if I have an ATA-6 or ATA100 or ATA150?



    Or even a SATA. Those are shipping in some newer laptops. As for your question you will have to RTFS. S=specs 😉 It should also state it right on the HD man.

    If you are unsure you can always get a 150 but yours is probably 100 unless it is brand new and a higher end model. A 150 will run on a slower bus but not the other way around. Well it will run just not full speed etc.. you know what I mean.. 😉
  3. #3
    I wish it was that easy. What the hell is an ATA-6?

  4. #4
    I assumed you meant ata-66

  5. #5
    Bubba = Mr. Technical....

    And I'm assuming that by his new forum title I must have missed something interesting during FNF. 😮
  6. #6
    Yes it has to be 66 I would think. 😉
    A 6 bus speed would be just a bit slow 😉
    Those are also used more in older laptops.

    There has got to be specs for the laptop. Tell me what model it is.
    I would get the 100 MB/s as I am fairly sure that is the one you have. 100 seems to be the standard these days as most laptop drive manufactures have stuck with 100 MB/s. Even high-end SCSI drives have a hard time sustaining transfer rates above 100 MB/s.

    Also use GHOST, you will need two 2.5->3.5 adapters, to copy the HD image to the new one. That way you will not have to re-build the entire system. If you need any help, just ask.
  7. #7
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....SubCategory=380

    HAH! I thought you guys were the experts!

    It is not a typo. It's the most popular of the three. Guess I need to RTFG..... 😈

    Don't need ghost Paladin. I'm just doing a new install. Old HD is kaput. I got the data I needed off of it. I just need to get this running for a LAN party Saturday.

  8. #8
    Atomm wrote:
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....SubCategory=380

    HAH! I thought you guys were the experts!

    It is not a typo.


    Actually you are right. There is an ATA-6 naming convention, goes from 1 though 8 I believe. I honestly was slacking in my posting and simply forgot about it, sorry. I would have to look up the specs though, do not have those all memorized 😉

    You threw me off by mentioning two different naming conventions by also using ata100 or 150 (which I was not even sure of but assumed you meant 133) etc... 😉

    I should have known better and have looked things up before posting, sorry. I honestly try to be as accurate as I can when I help people.
  9. #9
    Huh, news to me. Just read up on it. ATA-6 is ata-100 or ata-133, ATA 7 would be SATA and ATA 8= flash memory HDD (volitile but not really, but sorta).
    :-)

    love how they make things easy on us old-timers
  10. #10
    I'd never heard of ATA1-8 before. Learned something.

    Guess I will just order the ATA-6 and call it done. :-)

  11. #11
    yeah it seems that is ytour answer although within ata-6 there is still ata-66, ata100, and ata 133. Although as Paladin pointed out 133 is backwards compatible so I would imagine you would be fine regardless, and that most of thesse drives are 133's even if they dont' say so. But you know all this.. I am just trying to show off how ub3r l33t I am.
  12. #12
    Hey Bubba... I already new you were ub3r l33t!!!!11!1!11

    I mean, anyone who can man handle a porcupine like that and not get stuck is ub3r l33t!!!!11!1!11 in my book. 😈

  13. #13
    ooo right :-)
  14. #14
    sindy wrote:
    Bubba = Mr. Technical....

    And I'm assuming that by his new forum title I must have missed something interesting during FNF. 😮


    You snooze, you lose. You might also want to check out some ppl's sigs as well, regarding that subject.
  15. #15
    Yea, you missed a really good Friday Night..... I haven't heard that much interesting talk about small mammals and love making since Sarge's Muskrats.....

  16. #16
    :Attempted deflection:

    Yup Sarge really loves them muskrats.

    :/Attempted deflection:
  17. #17
    The difference is that the muskrats were in my back yard and making love to each other without any human involvement....
  18. #18
    LOL Muskrat LOVE!!!!

    but, yeah that's a likely story there Sarge.... 😛
  19. #19
    Do a search on the forums. It's in the archive somewhere.... lol


  21. #21
    🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

    That is freaking HILARIOUS!!! y'all just made my crappy day better! 😀
  22. #22
    See, I told you there was a funny story there somewhere.... :-)