T410 HDD replacement: SATA or MicroSATA?

[Tsomi]

Hello,

I have a Thinkpad 410 whose hard-drive is dying, so I'm looking for a replacement. The actual model is a 3Gb/s 7200RPM 2.5" 160GB SATA drive.

So I went there for some information:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail. ... MIGR-75387
... but the Hard drive features only mentions "MicroSATA Generation 2 interface". 2.5" SATA drivers are easy to find and not too costly, but the same thing cannot be said for MicroSATA hard drives.

However, this page:
http://support.lenovo.com/fr_FR/product ... MIGR-74566
... mentions "MicroSATA solid state drives" and "SATA hard disk drives". Moreover, my actual HDD only mentions SATA, not MicroSATA.

I'm not looking for an SSD (yet), so my question is: will a 2.5" SATA drive be OK, or do I really need to find a MicroSATA HDD for my Thinkpad T410?

Thanks for you help.

[ajkula66]

Welcome to the forum!

T410 will take a standard 2.5"/9.5mm SATA SSD or hard drive, no issues there.

Happy upgrading.

[nikki605]

Yes, a SATA HDD will work fine. My T410 has a Hitachi HTS725032A9A364 in it from the factory and it is a SATA HDD.

As I read the specs you referenced, the T410's INTERFACE is MicroSATA Generation 2 compatible.

[Tsomi]

All right, I just wanted to be sure.

Thank you very much!