ATA - 6 Interface

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ATA - 6 Interface

#1 Post by fleamourian » Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:04 am

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Anyone know if an ATA - 6 interface HDD will work with my old Thinkpad T21? I'm geussin' it may as current HDD listed as ATA/IDE.
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#2 Post by dsvochak » Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:38 am

The answer to your question is yes, it will work.

But it will only run at the T21 speed (UDMA 33) instead of the maximum ATA-6 speed.
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#3 Post by nikki605 » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:47 am

I recently installed this ATA-6 drive in my T21 and it works fine.

I used Acronis Migrate Easy ver 7.0 to clone the existing drive. It took less than an hour. I installed the new drive in an external enclosure and conected it via the USB port. Quick and simple, it just worked!
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