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    Need a new hard drive for Sony Vaio laptop
    « on: December 26, 2012, 06:31:13 PM »
    I don't know much about hardware so please bear with me if my question sounds stupid.
    Is there any special type of hard drive I need, i.e. some special specification I should look into before buying (the wrong) one?

    For instance, would this be ok?
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148591

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    Re: Need a new hard drive for Sony Vaio laptop
    « Reply #1 on: December 27, 2012, 02:46:53 AM »
    As long as your chipset supports SATA it should work fine, because SATA is backwards compatible; SATA II and III will work with SATA I ports. What is the model of your VAIO?
    There are some old notorious chipsets that require you to have a jumper on your drive to force it to operate in SATA I mode; e.g. http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Barracuda-XT-Barracuda-Barracuda/Seagate-barracuda-7200-12-jumpered-to-SATA-150/td-p/33122 . Those are usually chipsets with old Intel ICH4/5/6 / VIA8237 I/O controllers.
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      Re: Need a new hard drive for Sony Vaio laptop
      « Reply #2 on: December 27, 2012, 09:29:47 AM »
      thanks for your help

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        Re: Need a new hard drive for Sony Vaio laptop
        « Reply #3 on: December 27, 2012, 11:31:46 AM »
        never mind I got my answer
        « Last Edit: December 27, 2012, 11:46:54 AM by zulubanshee »

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        Re: Need a new hard drive for Sony Vaio laptop
        « Reply #4 on: December 27, 2012, 12:31:44 PM »
        HuH ? ? ?
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