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07-13-2016 01:29 PM
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07-13-2016 03:29 PM
The most common description used now is PATA, not IDE or ATA so if you search for laptop PATA hard drive you will find what there is. I refurbish vintage laptops as a hobby so I buy a fair number of PATA drives and they are hard, but not impossible to find. You are in UK? Should find them on ebay UK I would think.
07-13-2016 01:39 PM
ATA-5 is also called IDE-100 and ATA-6 is IDE-133. The slowest thing you are likely to find out there is ATA-4 or IDE-66. You can use any 2.5 inch laptop hard drive with the brass pins (old school, pre-SATA design) called PATA, IDE or ATA (all the same thing) and 9.5 mm thick.
Ths would work, for example.
They are not making new ones. If you can, try to find a 7200 rpm spin speed. Again, getting very hard to find and try to be sure you are getting new old stock and not a used drive.
07-13-2016 02:47 PM
Is there anything in the online descriptions that would set it apart from others as having the brass pins? Just to make searching easier ?
07-13-2016 03:29 PM
The most common description used now is PATA, not IDE or ATA so if you search for laptop PATA hard drive you will find what there is. I refurbish vintage laptops as a hobby so I buy a fair number of PATA drives and they are hard, but not impossible to find. You are in UK? Should find them on ebay UK I would think.