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April 23rd, 2007 16:00
Ultra ATA 100 vs IDE ATA/ATAPI Compatible Connections?
My old hard drive is dying and I need to replace it soon. I bought a Dell Dimension 8200 (XP Home Ed) in 2002. It has an Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.00 GHz Vers. x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 4 speed 1993 MHz (1.95GHz) processor. My old hard drive is a Seagate 80gb IDE. I found a similar IDE internal drive on Tiger Direct with the following specs:
Seagate / 80GB / 7200 / 2MB / ATA-100 / EIDE / OEM / Hard Drive Interface Ultra ATA-100 Average Seek (msec) 11 Average Latency (msec) 4.16 Spindle Speed (RPM) 7200 Maximum External Transfer Rate (Mbits/sec) 100 Buffer Memory 2MB Capacity (GB) 80 Configuration/Organization Logical Cylinders/Heads/Sectors per Track 16,383/16/63 Bytes Per Sector 512 Acoustics Idle (bels—sound power) 2.8 Acoustics Seek (bels—sound power) 3.0 Reliability/Data Integrity Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read 1 in 10E14
I've never had any trouble with my Dell before, so this'll be my first hard drive replacement. What's bothering me is whether this hard drive will connect to my curent system? I know this drive takes a flat ribbon IDE 40 pin connector, so no doubt the pins will line up, but does my CPU work with this Ulta ATA interface, or will I need some sort of adaptor controller card ? Last thing I want to do is mess up the system!
Seagate / 80GB / 7200 / 2MB / ATA-100 / EIDE / OEM / Hard Drive Interface Ultra ATA-100 Average Seek (msec) 11 Average Latency (msec) 4.16 Spindle Speed (RPM) 7200 Maximum External Transfer Rate (Mbits/sec) 100 Buffer Memory 2MB Capacity (GB) 80 Configuration/Organization Logical Cylinders/Heads/Sectors per Track 16,383/16/63 Bytes Per Sector 512 Acoustics Idle (bels—sound power) 2.8 Acoustics Seek (bels—sound power) 3.0 Reliability/Data Integrity Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read 1 in 10E14
I've never had any trouble with my Dell before, so this'll be my first hard drive replacement. What's bothering me is whether this hard drive will connect to my curent system? I know this drive takes a flat ribbon IDE 40 pin connector, so no doubt the pins will line up, but does my CPU work with this Ulta ATA interface, or will I need some sort of adaptor controller card ? Last thing I want to do is mess up the system!
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shesagordie
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April 23rd, 2007 18:00
Yes, they are and the Seagate 80gb EIDE hard drive, should work fine in your D-8200 system.
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April 23rd, 2007 19:00