Laptop Hard Drives

[cleverhandle]

The drive in my old laptop just went kaput and I'd like to get some cheapo off of eBay to replace it. Do all (2.5") laptop drives use the same kind of connection, mounting, etc. or will I need to be specific. The laptop is an Acer Travelmate 222.

 

[PurdueRy]

its just a 2.5 inch drive. You will need to see what your laptop supports on the manufacturers website(size wise....like GBs)

 

[vegetation]

They're all the same basically. Older laptops could accomodate a slightly thicker drive in its bay that was the standard back in the days, but will have no problem fitting the slimmer form factor that are only found in today's market.

 

[mastermynd27]

there are sata drives in new laptops, but rare from what ive seen.

for the most part every 2.5" hard drive I have seen from old to new laptops has the same connectors and is the same size

 

[Bluestealth]

Originally posted by: mastermynd27
there are sata drives in new laptops, but rare from what ive seen.

for the most part every 2.5" hard drive I have seen from old to new laptops has the same connectors and is the same size

Don't think its changed since ATA-3... though some companies are known for proprietary standards... *cough Compaq *cough that might not support them, but I was able to put a ATA-6 drive into a OLD 386 notebook and have it recongize it and boot up... but it took some time to find one that used little enough power... the orginal hard drive was a 512MB, I put in a 20 GB 🙂... The sled connector is not always standard but connects through an adapter to the standard 2.5" ide connector.

 

[pkme2]

You can get an ide 2.5" 9mm hdd, 4200/5400rpm on eBay to replace your old hdd. Your Acer adapter should be fit any IDE version.

 

[cleverhandle]

Got it. Thanks all.