Is the ATA-6 interface the same as ide for my notebook drive?

[heroine]

hi all. quick question.

i have a dell inspiron 8600. hard drive just died, and was looking around to get one. the interface for most of the drives i saw were either sata or ata-6. i'm pretty sure i don't have an sata drive, but i was wondering if ata-6 is synonymous with ide/pata?

any help would be much appreciated.

thanks.
daniel.

 

[CrossFire851]

You could get an adapter

ATA-6-P/Ata

We are you looking anyways??

If you live in America newegg.com offeres the best deals around with outstanding shipping.

Reply back

 

[heroine]

hi! thanks so much for the reply.

yeah. i was looking in newegg. all the drives i saw had a sata or ata-6 interface, none had ide stated as an interface.

so i guess ata-6 and ide/pata is not synonymous?

i can put an adapter in the notebook? i was looking at the hitachi travelstar 5K100 80gb. i'd have to get an adapter to put in the dell notebook?

thanks for the response.
daniel.

 

[CrossFire851]

IDE (Parallel ATA) was the old standered for desktops. The currnet standered interface for harddrives is sata for destops.


Now since you're looking into notebook/laptops harddrives it would be ATA-6.

Give me a price budget and I will pick something out for you.

That's the same hdd as I got I love it. Had it for 2-3months wich I love best bet.

 

[heroine]

man, thanks for the help, crossfire.

budget is under 110.00.

i have a dell inspiron 8600.

i'm hoping for a 60-80gb drive, 5400rpm.

thanks again!

daniel.

 

[CrossFire851]

Get this one it's 7,200rpms and 8mb cache. It's aswome as being a proud owner.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822146020



Or get the one you stated wich is 20 more gigs at the price of speed. (7,200 rpms to 5,400 rpms)

 

[heroine]

thanks so much for the advice, and the suggestion!

 

[CrossFire851]

Go here http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...scription=&srchInDesc=&minPrice=&maxPrice=110

There's a big selection

 

[CrossFire851]

Reply back and tell me wich one you got.

I'm curious. :giddy:

 

[heroine]

i got the HITACHI Travelstar 7K60 60GB 2.5" ATA-6.

cannot wait!

thanks again for the help.