New 2TB hard drive needed

GunRunner · 15 Jul 2015 at 22:57

I have been off the scene for a while now and am a long way behind the knowledge drag curve and looking for advice please.

I am about to purchase a replacement 2TB Hard Drive to fit into my PC because the one I am currently using is starting to fail. It is a Seagate 2TB SATA II.

The motherboard is a Gigabyte EX58 -UD5 and comes with SATA II interfaces.

I am thinking of purchasing a Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-255-SE

The information says ...

** Backwards compatible with SATA-II **

This might sound a bit silly and naive, but is the physical interface for the power and data on the HD the same as SATA-II, or has there been an interface (socket) change that requires a small adaptor? I do not wish to order a new drive and then find I should have also ordered a little adaptor (making it backwards compatible) that goes onto the end of the drive and allows the SATA II cable to attach to it.

Thanks

RJC · 15 Jul 2015 at 22:58

The hard drive will plug into the original data and power cable

Only thing you will need todo is go into disk management and assign a letter.

GunRunner · 15 Jul 2015 at 23:01

RJC said:
The hard drive will plug into the original data and power cable

Only thing you will need todo is go into disk management and assign a letter.

That was a quick reply. Yes, I am up to speed on disk management. Thank-you very much.

darael · 16 Jul 2015 at 00:01

Forget Seagate, unless you really enjoy buying new harddrives every couple of years. I would go for a Hitachi or Toshiba harddrive now, which happens to be £5 cheaper on Overclockers.

GunRunner · 17 Jul 2015 at 15:09

darael said:
Forget Seagate, unless you really enjoy buying new harddrives every couple of years. I would go for a Hitachi or Toshiba harddrive now, which happens to be £5 cheaper on Overclockers.

I purchased the Seagate.

I have just taken the old drive out and the hard drive that has failed is a Toshiba made by Hitachi, dated SEP 2012.

When I built systems way back before Pontius was a pilot, I am sure that we always asked for Western Digital or Seagate, because they were from the same production line with the MTBF being the same. I have never had a Seagate fail. Only Hitachi.