Hard drive question

[GeorgeM123]

I'm upgrading my dads ancient pc as his hard drive has packed in. I'm going to get the Seagate Barracuda 500 gb that's on offer http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-252-SE&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=940
The pc is 8 years old haha, it has an asus a7v-8x-8 mother bored and an amd k7 2500 chip.
Will the new harddrive be compatible?
And don't worry I will be having a complete rebuild in the future this is just a quick fix
Hope you can help

 

[Bacon?]

Is that current HDD SATA or IDE?

 

[GeorgeM123]

It's a SATA 6GB/s so I think. I'm not 100% on parts tbh

 

[Bacon?]

The old HDD can't be SATA 3 since that never existed 7 years ago?

 

[GeorgeM123]

I think this were the problem lies, I dont have a clue

 

[soundesciple]

That board is only sata1 but the new drive will work but only at sata 1 speeds (ie 1.5gbps)

 

[Deleted member 138126]

I'm upgrading my dads ancient pc as his hard drive has packed in. I'm going to get the Seagate Barracuda 500 gb that's on offer http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-252-SE&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=940
The pc is 8 years old haha, it has an asus a7v-8x-8 mother bored and an amd k7 2500 chip.
Will the new harddrive be compatible?
And don't worry I will be having a complete rebuild in the future this is just a quick fix
Hope you can help

Pouring £60 into an 8-yr old PC is not money well spent, unless it will be part of the future rebuild? And why a custom build for someone like your Dad who probably doesn't care about that (given he's had the PC for 8 years)? Better to just buy a Dell or something like that, which includes the hard drive, and then you haven't spent the £60.

 

[GeorgeM123]

It was on offer for 45 so I've missed out. I'm guessing then id have to buy a different cable for it to work?-i was going to upgrade it later in the year but do you guys think I'm best just building new one from scratch now?

 

[Deleted member 138126]

It was on offer for 45 so I've missed out. I'm guessing then id have to buy a different cable for it to work?-i was going to upgrade it later in the year but do you guys think I'm best just building new one from scratch now?

Better to buy an off-the-shelf so there's a single warranty to deal with.

 

[GeorgeM123]

you mean just like standard dell tower pc? i was going to build one so i could game abit with about £450 budget, i thought it was much cheaper to build one

 

[Deleted member 138126]

you mean just like standard dell tower pc? i was going to build one so i could game abit with about £450 budget, i thought it was much cheaper to build one

If that's your intention, then yeah, build it. My philosophy in these cases (hardware for friends and family) is to make hardware support someone else's problem (i.e. the manufacturer), not mine.