Best hard drive fot T23

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winslow · #1 Post by **winslow** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:18 pm

Is a PATA hard drive compatable with the T23 or Is ATA the only option?

Brad · #2 Post by **Brad** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:25 pm

Any IDE drive that physically fits should work. Right now the limits are for 7200rpm up to 100gb and for less rpm up to 320gb. 500gb has been announced. I am not sure if that is only SATA or PATA also.

Brad

winslow · #3 Post by **winslow** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:13 pm

Is there a difference in the interface between ATA, PATA, SATA?

aaa · #4 Post by **aaa** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:20 pm

yes & no

ATA = PATA = IDE

SATA = something totally different

winslow · #5 Post by **winslow** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:58 pm

so when rpm match and GB match a PATA drive would perform better than an ATA-xxx, and both are compatable in the T23 series?

hitokage · #6 Post by **hitokage** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:07 am

PATA and ATA are the same thing - a PATA drive is an ATA drive and vice-versa. That's why aaa said "ATA = PATA = IDE", although you can also add EIDE, so ATA = PATA = IDE = EIDE - they're the same in this context.

The P was added to ATA when SATA drives came out. The P stands for parallel, while the S in SATA stands for serial.

Steve G.

#7 Post by **Harryc** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:48 am

Any drive at this link is compatible with your machine. Just stay away from the Hitachi E7K100 models.

vanaya · #8 Post by **vanaya** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:45 am

The difference between PATA and SATA are the way the connect to MB. Parallel and Serial. Read the Hard Drive FAQ's for the In's and Out's here.

mattbiernat · #9 Post by **mattbiernat** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:00 am

with only 1.13 P3 CPU, would 7200 make a huge difference over 5400RPM?

p78 · #10 Post by **p78** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:13 am

Brad wrote:Any IDE drive that physically fits should work. <snip> up to 320gb.

Interesting ... are 320GB pata 2.5" drive available somewhere ?

MintyMadness · #11 Post by **MintyMadness** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:07 pm

mattbiernat wrote:with only 1.13 P3 CPU, would 7200 make a huge difference over 5400RPM?

With boot times? yes.
With application load times? yes.
Overall? I think yes.

Not *huge* per se, I guess, but noticable.

The jump from 4200RPM to 7200RPM, I would call pretty "huge" though

-Jeremy

mattbiernat · #12 Post by **mattbiernat** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:37 pm

MintyMadness wrote:
The jump from 4200RPM to 7200RPM, I would call pretty "huge" though

-Jeremy

any 250GB 7200RPM drives?

MintyMadness · #13 Post by **MintyMadness** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:48 pm

EDIT: no 250GB drives on eBay. Not to say they don't exist, I have no idea right now, but a quick search on eBay was fruitless for 250GB notebook hard drive at 7200RPM for me.

Plenty of 200GB 7200RPM 2.5" SATA on ebay,

Not so many PATA's..

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