IDE Hard drive upgrade
Discussion
The hard drive's gone in one of my PCs and I'm looking to replace it. It's a IDE 40GBdrive from about 5 years ago. Can I replace it with any IDE hard drive or are there likely to be compatibility issues?
I've been looking at drives with ATA100 and ATA133 speeds, but will these work with all IDE connections or do yuo need a more modenr motherboard to work with these later protocols?
I've been looking at drives with ATA100 and ATA133 speeds, but will these work with all IDE connections or do yuo need a more modenr motherboard to work with these later protocols?
Backwards compatible. If you get a whizzy new 133 and your motherboard can only drive a 100, it should function as a 100. You'll have wasted a little cash, but it should still work.
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