Hard Drive Compatibility Question

Matt-Page · 4 Mar 2010 at 06:54

Hi,

I've got a laptop to repair with a faulty HDD. The Laptop is a HP G70 and the Hard drive is a Seagate Momentus GB SATA Drive

IDE I'm fine with

but I just need to know what SATA Laptop hard drives I need to be looking at to replace it with. Looking for the Part/Serial number only finds me refurbed ones on the auction site.

Would a Seagate ST9160314AS 160GB 2.5" Hard Drive SATAII 5400rpm 8MB Cache - OEM work?

I'm 99% sure it will, but would like someone to confirm for me.

Thanks in advance.

Matt.

vanandjuanunited · 4 Mar 2010 at 07:19

any laptop sata drive will work. Only thing to check is some drives are slightly thicker

J.B · 4 Mar 2010 at 07:59

Pretty much any standard SATA laptop drive will work. You can get the ultra small ones but 90% of then are 2.5".

Matt-Page · 4 Mar 2010 at 08:09

Yea 2.5" and 9.5mm.

Thanks to both who have replied, I was worried there was some variance of SATA required but you've cleared that up for me.

Ordered a 160GB drive for £41 delivered. These SATA drives seem to fail a lot in Laptops, I've had to replace a few for people now but normally source like for like ones on the auction site.

Thanks again