Can I replace SATA 1 HDD with SATA 2 HDD??

siringo · 23 Oct 2011

The hard drive in my son's laptop has died, it's a SATA 1 (1.5Gb/s) drive. Can I upgrade it to a SATA 2 (3.0 Gb/s) hard disk?? It's in a Toshiba laptop.

Many thanks in advance.

zigzag3143 · 23 Oct 2011

siringo said:

The hard drive in my son's laptop has died, it's a SATA 1 (1.5Gb/s) drive. Can I upgrade it to a SATA 2 (3.0 Gb/s) hard disk?? It's in a Toshiba laptop.

Many thanks in advance.

Any chance we can get your system specs and network setup? My crystal ball is being repaired..

Zepher · 23 Oct 2011

yes you can.

siringo · 23 Oct 2011

Thanks guys, much appreciated.

Corazon · 23 Oct 2011

Well, "yes you can" is a bit vague. Absolutely, you can plug in a SATA-II harddisk, but it will run at SATA-I speed. Not really a problem as even 1.5Gb/sec is still faster than most harddisks out there.
Point being: SATA-II is backwards-compatible to SATA-I.

smarteyeball · 23 Oct 2011

Corazon said:

Well, "yes you can" is a bit vague.

At least vagueness is preferable to erroneous :)

Corazon · 23 Oct 2011

Maybe, but vagueness leads to confusion down the road. :)

siringo · 23 Oct 2011

Thanks again guys.