Drive Upgrade

Nope, no cables are necessary.

Hard drives are pretty straightforward. You only need to know 2 things: Size (3.5 or 2.5) and interface (IDE or SATA).

I strongly suspect your laptop uses SATA, especially if it was purchased in the past few years. You can double check in Device Manager, if you find the drive's model number and Google it.

The new drive should work just fine. Just pull out the old one and stick the new one in.

Jonathan_King said:

The new drive should work just fine. Just pull out the old one and stick the new one in.

Agreed, you should be good to go! :)

Bill

So SAS and SATA drives are interchangeable?

Zepher said:

So SAS and SATA drives are interchangeable?

No, I don't believe they are.

I just read this,
The SAS backplane connector was designed to accept either a SAS drive or a SATA drive, while making provisions for a dual-ported SAS drive. SAS connectors add a notch to the SATA connector to ensure that SAS drives can only be plugged into SAS systems. This is required because SATA host controllers do not understand SCSI protocols and will not recognize a SAS drive. Notching the SAS drive connector prevents a SAS drive from being plugged into a SATA host controller, which would result in a non-functioning drive.

TheUnseen said:

Anyone know if this hard drive would be fully compatible (just plugin and go) with my Sony Vaio AW-190 Laptop?

Seagate Savvio 15K.2 ST973452SS 73GB 15000 RPM 16MB Cache 2.5" SAS 6Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive

Do I need any special cables or anything need to be done beside remove old drive and plug this in?

Jonathan_King said:

Nope, no cables are necessary.

Hard drives are pretty straightforward. You only need to know 2 things: Size (3.5 or 2.5) and interface (IDE or SATA).

I strongly suspect your laptop uses SATA, especially if it was purchased in the past few years. You can double check in Device Manager, if you find the drive's model number and Google it.

Jonathan_King said:

The new drive should work just fine. Just pull out the old one and stick the new one in.

Jonathan_King said:

Zepher said:

So SAS and SATA drives are interchangeable?

No, I don't believe they are.

He wants to put a SAS drive in his Notebook.

Oh, yes, I see that now. I should have read his drive more closely.

Good catch, hope it's not too late.