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ProDigit80   10-10-2009 at 05:11:07 PM

Hi,
I have a Sony Vaio, that originally came with a Toshiba MK1234GSX harddrive, 120GB.
120GB is plenty for me!
I'd like to upgrade this drive, since it broke down today to a cheap, more energy efficient drive of about the same size or greater, same or greater speed.
This drive is at least 3 years old, so I guess there must be improvements out already!

I'm not willing to spend a whole lot of money in it, and so far for $50 +shipping I found a replacement drive.
But perhaps there are plenty better drives out there!

Anyone any suggestion, or saw a great deal out there?
Any possible incompatibilities with my Sony Vaio (VGN-C190) laptop that are known of (eg: Bios issues)?

Thanks!

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ProDigit80   10-10-2009 at 08:00:10 PM

Looks like a good deal, but is it backwards compatible with the Sata 1 interface of my laptop?


Message edited by ProDigit80 on 10-10-2009 at 08:00:33 PM
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runswindows95   10-10-2009 at 08:08:26 PM

Yep. I've installed this in an older Dell, and it works like a charm.

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ProDigit80   10-10-2009 at 08:19:39 PM

Thanks very much!
Did you have issues recovering data to another drive?

My Sony Vaio laptop has recovery software. I hope I don't need ' e x a c t l y ' the same drive to recover from the DVD's.

I already created a thread about this here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] data-drive


Thanks for your suggestion!

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ProDigit80   10-12-2009 at 03:48:11 AM

It seems that the HITACHI Travelstar 5K500 series are both Sata 150 and 300 compatible.
The HITACHI Travelstar 5K500.B you mentioned above, on their tech sheet don't have any mention about the former Sata interface, and seem to only support Sata300 (Or SataII, which ever you prefer).
I've read Sata2 is backwards compatible on some mobo's, I guess I'll just go for the purchase, and worry later :-/

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Bronze CPUs badge cjl   10-12-2009 at 04:43:32 AM

It should be backwards compatible all the time. I wouldn't worry about it.

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