Harddrive x60

[nontechy]

I would like to ask whether x60 has a different kind of HDD. I talked to one of the school's technician and they claim that to backup data from my old hard drive, they have to get a new connector, since x60 is really new. Is that true? How is x60's harddrifve different from other HDDs?

[smvp6459]

It's a 2.5" SATA (Serial ATA) harddrive. The connector required is different than 2.5" PATA (Parallel ATA) harddrives, which were once just called harddrives or ATA66, ATA100, ATA133, etc. depending on the drive's transfer rate.