Laptop Hard Drive interfaces

MightyKing

New Member
Using SIW I found my Hard drive to figure out its interface;

Samsung SAMSUNG HM320JI 320 GBytes IDE SATA

It says interface is IDE SATA... Isn't this two different type of interfaces, IDE and SATA? Does this mean my laptop supports both IDE and SATA? So when I go buy another hard drive for my laptop, which interface should I look for?

I'm not sure at all so please clear this doubt for me, thank you.
 

camel lips

New Member
Found out this past weekend that a 2.5 SATA HD will fit in a Standard PC 3.5 inch.Cable connections are the same.
 

Cromewell

Administrator
Staff member
Yes. It's an SATA drive. Make sure you don't get a desktop drive for your laptop (it wont fit in the slot if you do) but otherwise any standard laptop SATA drive should work.
 
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