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Quick question about old ATA devices:

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Project86

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I'm upgrading an old laptop for a friend. The current drive is ATA-5, a 20GB unit. I want to throw in a new 80GB drive, which claims to be ATA-6. Will it work in the laptop?

 
Yes it should with no problem. It will fall back to ATA5 if your controller can not support ATA 6 but more than likely it already does. Controller chips were updated before the drives arrived. ATA 6 gives you 100MB per second transfer rate versus ATA 5 at 66MB/s and increased the head an track counts and LBA bits for much bigger HD than a 80GB.
 
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