need to find a compatible hard drive for my motherboard

[g-naveen]

i have a

HP Pavilion dv6t-6c00 CTO Quad Edition Entertainment Notebook PC [model number: A1U59AV]

with 2nd-gen-intel-core-i7 processor [ http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-Pavilion-dv6-6c00-Quad-Edition-Entertainment-Notebook-PC-seri... ]

my hard disk shows short DST failure. i have extracted the data somehow. windows is not booting now. i need to replace the faulty HDD with a new one compatible with my motherboard. can i buy a HDD with 1TB, 7200 RPM, SATA 6.0 Gbps, 64MB-cache ? will that suit my motherboard? unfortunately, i dont know what motherboard, the laptop came with. can anyone please help me choose the right HDD ? thanks in advance 🙂

[Huffer]

Yes. Any 2.5 inch wide and 7mm or 9.5mm thick SATA hard drive will work fine. 

I could not find a 64 meg cache model but here is a 1 TB 7200 rpm 32 meg cache:

http://www.amazon.com/HGST-Travelstar-2-5-Inch-Internal-0J22423/dp/B00B4QESVQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid...

You might want to consider a solid state drive if you are looking for the fastest option. This video might also help:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQx7PlIXFuE

If this is "the Answer" please click "Accept as Solution" to help others find it. 

[g-naveen]

whew ! that was fast. thanks a lot sir. 🙂

1. can i know which motherboard model i have?

2.will the motherboard utilise the SATA 6.0 Gbps or will that be a speed bottleneck?

3. i bought the laptop when i was in the USA but now i am settled in India, so i cant buy from amazon.com. 😞

4. i am skeptical about the life of SSDs so i am fine with a HDD.

[CallMeSpyx · Accepted solution]

1. Your motherboard's ID should be on page 87 of the service manual: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03099531

2. The SATA connection will either be SATA II 3Gbps or SATA III 6Gbps. Neither of those should bottleneck a mechanical hard drive.

3. I found this on Amazon.in: http://www.amazon.in/Blue%C2%A0-Notebook%C2%A0%C2%A0-Internal-Drive%C2%A0-WD10JPVX/dp/B00C9TEBJQ/ref...

4. An SSD from a well-known brand (e.g. Samsung, Kingston, Intel, SanDisk) should have no problems with lifespan. I'd recommend the Samsung 850 EVO myself, got one in my laptop.

[g-naveen]

1. i could not find it on page 87. but i found this on page 2:

- Intel HM65 Express chipset with NEC USB 3.0 (select models only)

- Intel HM65 Express chipset

is it one of these?

2. if my motherboard's SATA connection is only SATA II 3Gbps, how can it fully utilise a a SATA III 6Gbps HDD? please explain how.

3. thank you for the choice, but it is a 5400 RPM drive.

thanks a ton 🙂

[CallMeSpyx]

1. Page 87 is titled 'System Board' and contains all the HP model numbers for all of the different motherboards that the laptop model can have, yours should be in there somewhere.

2. SATA is cross-compatible (e.g. a SATA III SSD will work on SATA II, just at lower speed) so it would work fine.

3. This drive is listed as 7200rpm: http://www.amazon.in/Hitachi-Laptop-Hard-Disk-7200/dp/B00CBV5DJO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1461136735&s...

[g-naveen]

"SATA is cross-compatible (e.g. a SATA III SSD will work on SATA II, just at lower speed) so it would work fine"

that is what i meant by speed-bottleneck (sorry if the term is wrong). i dont know if my motherboard has SATA II or SATA III, so buying a SATA III HDD would be useless at the expense of an additional (approx) 1000 INR if my motherboard has SATA II only. that is why i want to confirm what my motherboard has. and being not very knowledgeable about hardware, i still cant figure out my motherboard's model number (not part ID) all i know is that it runs a 2nd-gen-core-i7 processor. 😞 can you help me find out if my motherboard has SATA III ? and thanks a ton for the choice 🙂 and i dont prefer a SSD over a HDD.

[Huffer]

Well you are overthinking things. You are not wasting money by getting a SATA-III drive to run on a SATA-II motherboard. In fact there is little difference in actual operation. SATA-II SSDs would be rubbish. Old and obsolete. The part ID is your motherboard model number. On laptops, motherboards are one-off proprietary things, unique to the laptop model. Not like a desktop where there are industry standard universal parts.