What replacement HD do I need?

[Guest Trevor]

Just taken 2 faulty HD's out of a fairly old PC.

 

HD 1 is Maxtor Diamond Max 10 Model: 6L080P0 80 GB PATA133 HDD

 

HD2 is 40Gb AT Maxtor D540X-4K

 

What typo should I be looking for (e.g. on EBuyer site)?

[Guest Uncle Grumpy]

Re: What replacement HD do I need?

 

"Trevor" <trevor@nospam.woldsweather.plus.net> wrote:

>What typo should I be looking for (e.g. on EBuyer site)?

 

I have no idea what "fairly old" means, but you should stick with IDE

parallel ATA (PATA) drive and probably shouldn't get anything larger

than the largest one you're replacing, in case your MOBO won't

recognize larger disks.

 

Brand doesn't matter.

[Guest Joe Grover]

Re: What replacement HD do I need?

 

As Uncle Grumpy said you'll want to stick with IDE drives. Drives from

Maxtor, Seagate and Western Digital are all solid choices.

 

You'd probably be good going up to 120GB as far as hard drive size. Beyond

that you could run into issues going over 137GB.

 

Joe

 

"Trevor" <trevor@nospam.woldsweather.plus.net> wrote in message

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> Just taken 2 faulty HD's out of a fairly old PC.

>

> HD 1 is Maxtor Diamond Max 10 Model: 6L080P0 80 GB PATA133 HDD

>

> HD2 is 40Gb AT Maxtor D540X-4K

>

> What typo should I be looking for (e.g. on EBuyer site)?

>

[Guest Lil' Dave]

Re: What replacement HD do I need?

 

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=AA21260

 

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=AA17640

 

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=AA51050

 

Examples.

 

Dave

"Trevor" <trevor@nospam.woldsweather.plus.net> wrote in message

news:88a5a$468e023d$50e5af86$8730@news.eurofeeds.com...

> Just taken 2 faulty HD's out of a fairly old PC.

>

> HD 1 is Maxtor Diamond Max 10 Model: 6L080P0 80 GB PATA133 HDD

>

> HD2 is 40Gb AT Maxtor D540X-4K

>

> What typo should I be looking for (e.g. on EBuyer site)?

>

[Guest Trevor]

Re: What replacement HD do I need?

 

Ah sh**** have ordered 250 Gb