Second HD for e510

Question

Looking at SATAs for sale on the Dell site, some seem to be model-specific. Are they in fact?

BillCondie · Answer

@BillCondie wrote: Looking at SATAs for sale on the Dell site, some seem to be model-specific. Are they in fact? . . . while on the subject: The e510 is SATA 1? Will a SATA2 work at lower speed?

shesagordie · Answer

BillCondie   You can use any 7200rpm SATA hard drive and you don't have to buy from Dell, shop the online vendors, like   www.newegg,com   www.zipzoomfly.com   Try to buy either a Seagate, Western Digital, Samsung or Hitachi.  Maxtor is not a good buy at this time, due to high failure rates.  Check the lenght of the warranty, there's one to five years on hard drives.   The E520/5150 SATA controller is SATA150. [1] a SATA 300 [2] will be fine, as it's backwards compatible.   Bev.

BillCondie · Answer

Thanks, Bev.   We're getting there :-)

shesagordie · Answer

BillCondie   :smileyhappy:   Bev.

klbf · Answer

hard drives from dell are extremely expensive compared to other sites... goes for about peripherala for pcs frm dell lol except whole pcs

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BillCondie · Answer

I'd thought so till I started shopping. This ain't bad from Dell:   160 GB 7200 RPM DiamondMax 10 Serial ATA Hard Drive RoHS Compliant $72.99

not a genius · Answer

I just picked up a 320 GB at Newegg for $95 shipped, I got a Seagate which I prefer, they are quiet and reliable (5yr warranty too0. They have some good deals on the new Western Digital you might want to check out, I saw some 250 GB's for less that what you showed from Dell.

BillCondie · Answer

I blew it :-(

BillCondie · Answer

I got the drive from Dell today. No data cable. They are sending me one. (I have one laying aroaund, but it doesn't have the L-shaped ending to fit in this tight box and put the side back on)

In the BIOS to enable it, I see that the original Seagate has a LinkSpeed of 3 Gbps and the new one, a Maxtor, ugh, has 1.5Gbps

LinkSpeed is a new one on me. Have I got the wrong drive?

What's it mean?

shesagordie · Answer

BillCondie

It makes no difference, because both the exsisting SATA 300 and the new SATA 150 will run at the 150 speed.

As both SATA 150 and 300 drive models are 7200 rpm, this will limit them to a practical maximum speed, in the 60-65 MBps range.

Sorry to say, but as the new hard drive is a Maxtor, as far as I'm concerned, it's the wrong drive.

Bev.

shesagordie · Answer

BillCondie

No, the E520/5150 SATA controller is a SATA150, but SATA 300 hard drives are backwards compatible.

The following is about Dell's OEM parts warranty,

"Once installed in or on a DellTM system, the part may carry the longer of either a one-year warranty or the remainder of the warranty or service contract period for the Dell system in or on which it is installed"

The above is taken from this article,

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/services/en/addon_hdware?c=us&l=en&s=gen

Bev.

BillCondie · Answer

So I had SATA2 after all in this machine? If so, I'm gonna RMA the Maxtor

BillCondie · Answer

Thanks again.

It seems strange that a SATA 1 controller would recognize a SATA 300 HD.

Even stranger that the machine would ship with a 300.

Does the SATA number show up anywhere on the BIOS, or slsewhere? I couldn't find it.

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