Is sata-300 the same as sata-II

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Hi there recently i've been thinking of upgrading my Acer 6935G's Hard Drive. At the minute from what I have checked I have a Seagate Momentus 5400rpm 250GB 2.5" HDD. Online I have found a 2.5" Seagate Momentus 500GB 7200.4rpm HDD Which i am going to buy, one thing that puts me off is that it says it's "Sata-300" which I have never come across before. Will this hdd be compatible to replace my current drive?

Cheers,
Lone

BTW here are the specs and link to the HDD Specs:

Laptop: Acer Aspire 6935G

Link to HDD I'm buying: http://www.dabs.com/products/seaga [...] s%207200.4

Reply to Lone Wolf

SATA 3.0 GBps is the SATA II standard. SATA 6.0 GBps is SATA III. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seria [...] bit.2Fs.29

SATA-300 is not a recognized standard and is sales-speak of some vendor.

Reply to Chesteracorgi

This link indicates that it is indeed SATA (II) 3.0 GBps. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] &x=15&y=37

Reply to Chesteracorgi

Ok thank for clearing this up, so i'm free to just swap out the old one?

Reply to Lone Wolf

"SATA-300" is a poor slang, VERY likely meaning SATA II. The proper term is SATA 3 Gb/s. A lot of people convert Gb (Gigabits) to GB (Gigabytes) by simply dividing by 10 - a reasonable approximation. 3 Gb = 3,000 Mb = 300 MB. and that's where the "300" comes from.

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