Can I use this HDD?

[Raphael Argus]

Anyone know if I can use this HDD or how I would find out? Seems my wife ordered if for me for X-Mas.
http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,587,00.html

Not familiar with the terms ATA or SATA and I'm in the process of trying to dig out my motherboard manual for info.

I found my MOBO box and it says supports ATA100 ultra DMA 33/66/100 IDE devices

Also says supports Serial ATA with 150mb data transfer rate.

Am I good to go? And should the drive be pretty simple to install?

Thanks for any help!

 

[H4x3r]

yes...serial ATA is the same as SATA..so you're good to go...

 

[Ridlyn]

Yep your completely fine SATA is the same as Serial ata

 

[Raphael Argus]

Shew. That's a good Xmas gift. Was afraid she ordered something I couldn't use SATA easy to install? I have a 6 year old 70gb WD I was going to set the Seagate up as the master and maybe still use the WD as a slave. Done this before with standard IDE HDDs but not SATA. I did find the SATA cord that came with my MOBO so if the Seagate doesn't come with one I'm Good to go with that

 

[Darybart]

Ordering something you cant use is Shit, I've had that before