I have a 4-year old Acer laptop that I love to death. Unfortunately it has a 420rpm 80GB drive. Everything works perfectly but I know that manufacturers are phasing out older parallel ATA hard drive connections and I'd like a 7200rpm drive.

So, I'm looking for a 7200pm laptop hard drive (2.5"), preferably a decent size, with a parallel ATA connection instead of SATA.


Newegg has nothing. Neither does TigerDirect. Any suggestions?

6/18/2008 7:34:20 PM

try searching for IDE instead of PATA

http://www.google.com/products?q=laptop+ide+hard+drive+7200rpm+2.5%22&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd

[Edited on June 18, 2008 at 9:22 PM. Reason : i know some of them that come up are desktop HD's but most are laptops.. google.]

[Edited on June 18, 2008 at 9:22 PM. Reason : wrong link ]

6/18/2008 9:21:38 PM

http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=380&name=Laptop-Hard-Drives

Edit: Right so I just realized none of those drives are actually IDE variants, which is interesting to note. Use the ^link above.

My laptop is 3 years old and uses an IDE connector, can't believe Newegg would phase their sales out that quickly.

[Edited on June 18, 2008 at 9:49 PM. Reason : .]

6/18/2008 9:43:36 PM

so what's more important? disk rotation speed or transfer speed? ie get a 5400 rpm 3.0Gb/s or a 7200 rpm 1.5 Gb/s?

11/11/2008 10:59:36 AM

3gb/s will operate just as quickly as 1.5gb/s, since neither is anywhere near their theoretical maximum and the limiting factor isn't theoretical throughput...if everything else is the same, go 7200rpm (but even then, i'd consider cache sizes to be as important, if not more so, than rotation speed in a laptop)

11/11/2008 11:02:01 AM