Not sure what type of HD to buy for an old Shuttle SB83G5

[Matt_Stevens]

OK, forgive me, but I haven't had to do any kind of building for years,

So now there are different types of hard drive interfaces and I am unsure what kind of drive I need to buy for a Shuttle SB83G5 I will be getting to replace my shot Shuttle.The 40gig drive I had just went bust (today) and they don't make drives that small these days.

I don't quite get all the IDE vs EIDE and ATA and SATA and so on. I'm just stumped on all that and under the gun to find a drive.

Shuttle's website no longer has information on this model that I can locate.

At Newegg it still shows a page and has the following...

Storage...
IDE ATA: 1 x ATA 100
Serial ATA: 2 x SATA 1.5Gb/s

The cables in the case itself say 30V VW-1 Serial ATA 26AWG LIAN FENG. So I need Serial ATA and probably 1.5GB/s, yes? I see an old IDE interface on the MB and that has never been used, so IDE is out if I am right.

But is 3.0 speed backwards compatible? There are near zero 1.5's left for sale out there.

Is this going to do the trick?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136195

Or this?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136075

Something like this is NOT what I need, right?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136457

Sorry to appear to be so dense, but I haven't been involved with building a system in a long long time. I can still troubleshoot, but that's about it. :\

Pictures of the cables to the motherboard...

Power cable

 

[ultimatebob]

Yes, 3.0Gb/s Serial ATA drives will work with most 1.5Gb/s SATA controllers. The few that aren't fully compatible (a few obscure SiS and VIA controller chips, which your computer doesn't even have), can be made compatible with a firmware upgrade.

 

[Ayah]

Yep, SATA3 is backwards compatible. You should be fine.

 

[Matt_Stevens]

I appreciate the help, gents. Mucho thanks!