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Hi,
So my laptop is about 3-4 years old now. It was one of the first gen Vista laptops. So essentially, it is severely underpowered and to be quite frank, sucks, big time. It's a netbook with a 17inch screen.
I am going to be wiping it out as Vista is painfully slow at this point and trust me I have done everything. (Msconfig, disk defrag, etc.). I am going to be installing Xubuntu or Gentoo.
But, I thought I'd do away with my 5400RPM 120GB hard drive which is a leading factor in its slowness.
I want to purchase one of these: WD Scorpio Black 250GB
It is a SATAII hard drive. My laptop, Acer Aspire 9410Z's onboard controller is for SATAI or SATA 1.5Gb/s.
I was wondering if it would work in it...I just downloaded the latest BIOS and will flash it when I feel like turning on the laptop (you know takes about 5 minutes to start up).
Thanks.
So my laptop is about 3-4 years old now. It was one of the first gen Vista laptops. So essentially, it is severely underpowered and to be quite frank, sucks, big time. It's a netbook with a 17inch screen.
I am going to be wiping it out as Vista is painfully slow at this point and trust me I have done everything. (Msconfig, disk defrag, etc.). I am going to be installing Xubuntu or Gentoo.
But, I thought I'd do away with my 5400RPM 120GB hard drive which is a leading factor in its slowness.
I want to purchase one of these: WD Scorpio Black 250GB
It is a SATAII hard drive. My laptop, Acer Aspire 9410Z's onboard controller is for SATAI or SATA 1.5Gb/s.
I was wondering if it would work in it...I just downloaded the latest BIOS and will flash it when I feel like turning on the laptop (you know takes about 5 minutes to start up).
Thanks.