Mine had a Western Digital 80 Gig in it, that was five years ago. At the time it was fine but I have since upgraded many parts including two new HDD's. I stuck the old 80 Gig in an older P4 Celeron computer, it still works just fine. Compaq uses a variety of manufacturers, they buy in bulk so they could be using something different today. Should tell you in your hardware.
Old was EIDE, 80 GB, 8MB Cache, 5400 RPM. Mine are EIDE. 120 GB, 100 MB/s, 8 MB Cache, 7200 RPM, not the greatest/fastest/biggest by todays standards but have worked flawlessly for the last three years, since I'm only using 80 Gig on the main and my virtual memory on the slave they are still overkill for me.
The Presario line had run for more than a decade. There are tons of different configurations across the many, many different models. If you want to know what hardware, consult your individual model's documenation. If you don't have the book, look it up on HP's site.
If all you want to know is if it's Sata or IDE, pop the case. If the hard drive is connected via a thick ribbon cable that has a connection that's about 2/3rds as wide as the drive itself on both ends, it's IDE. If it has a narrow cable about a half inch wide, it's SATA.
The Presario line had run for more than a decade. There are tons of different configurations across the many, many different models. If you want to know what hardware, consult your individual model's documenation. If you don't have the book, look it up on HP's site.
If all you want to know is if it's Sata or IDE, pop the case. If the hard drive is connected via a thick ribbon cable that has a connection that's about 2/3rds as wide as the drive itself on both ends, it's IDE. If it has a narrow cable about a half inch wide, it's SATA.
-Byshop
Byshop
thats what i said, but the thread master is a Xbox360 owner so i dont know if he can do anything but put a game in it
[QUOTE="__JMAR_"]im pretty sure the new ones run on a sata drive the older ones run on idej3ninja10
thats correct, you get an A++ lol, i thought they were called ata instead of ide, but i guess it depends on the brand
ATA and IDE are used interchangably, but IDE was the common term prior to SATA coming around. After SATA became commonplace, the ATA term was thrown around more (along with PATA or Parellel ATA) so that newcomers would be able to more easily recognize that IDE and SATA are not synonymous or compatible.
[QUOTE="j3ninja10"][QUOTE="__JMAR_"]im pretty sure the new ones run on a sata drive the older ones run on ideByshop
thats correct, you get an A++ lol, i thought they were called ata instead of ide, but i guess it depends on the brand
ATA and IDE are used interchangably, but IDE was the common term prior to SATA coming around. After SATA became commonplace, the ATA term was thrown around more (along with PATA or Parellel ATA) so that newcomers would be able to more easily recognize that IDE and SATA are not synonymous or compatible.
-Byshop
this i know, i think pata sounds funny. i have customers come up to me and say "i need a santa cord" instead of saying sata, so i laugh a them too
[QUOTE="j3ninja10"]thats what i said, but the thread master is a Xbox360 owner so i dont know if he can do anything but put a game in itByshop
Sorry, I meant to put an "as the previous poster said" in my post.
Don't diss on 360 owners. I have two 360s and I've been a computer tech for better than 14 years.
-Byshop
this dude that created this thread always ask questions regarding computers that can be easily researched or on previous post, im just giving him a hard time
[QUOTE="__JMAR_"]im pretty sure the new ones run on a sata drive the older ones run on idej3ninja10
thats correct, you get an A++ lol, i thought they were called ata instead of ide, but i guess it depends on the brand IDE is really meaningless, so you can either call them ATA or PATA, doesn't matter.
IDE is really meaningless, so you can either call them ATA or PATA, doesn't matter.Runningflame570
IDE is not meaningless. It refers to drives that have integrated controller boards and was the standard term for ATA drives for close to two decades. You can call them ATA or PATA if you want, but IDE is a perfectly acceptible term.
IDE is really meaningless, so you can either call them ATA or PATA, doesn't matter.Byshop
IDE is not meaningless. It refers to drives that have integrated controller boards and was the standard term for ATA drives for close to two decades. You can call them ATA or PATA if you want, but IDE is a perfectly acceptible term.
-Byshop
Perhaps, but most if not all HDDs have had that for at least a decade now and so theres really no point anymore to the term, just quoting my A+ course here.
All hard drives -do- have that, but the term has been around for a lot longer than most of the people on this board have even owned a computer. Just because there's a more specific term available now doesn't invalidate what myself and everyone I know in my profession used for many, many years.
The Presario line had run for more than a decade. There are tons of different configurations across the many, many different models. If you want to know what hardware, consult your individual model's documenation. If you don't have the book, look it up on HP's site.
If all you want to know is if it's Sata or IDE, pop the case. If the hard drive is connected via a thick ribbon cable that has a connection that's about 2/3rds as wide as the drive itself on both ends, it's IDE. If it has a narrow cable about a half inch wide, it's SATA.
-Byshop
j3ninja10
thats what i said, but the thread master is a Xbox360 owner so i dont know if he can do anything but put a game in it o really? btw the laptop DOESNT EVEN HAVE A HARD DRIVE IN it. ****
The Presario line had run for more than a decade. There are tons of different configurations across the many, many different models. If you want to know what hardware, consult your individual model's documenation. If you don't have the book, look it up on HP's site.
If all you want to know is if it's Sata or IDE, pop the case. If the hard drive is connected via a thick ribbon cable that has a connection that's about 2/3rds as wide as the drive itself on both ends, it's IDE. If it has a narrow cable about a half inch wide, it's SATA.
-Byshop
kbubba92
thats what i said, but the thread master is a Xbox360 owner so i dont know if he can do anything but put a game in it o really? btw the laptop DOESNT EVEN HAVE A HARD DRIVE IN it. **** LOL, just LOL
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