Will it work?

[Eddieboi17]

Planning to get a new Seagate Barracuda SATA NCQ 160GB hard drive for my pc but wanted to know if it will work in my pc or if any hard drive i get for my pc will work in it

 

[reggie_da_man]

You might want to give us some information on your computer.

 

[Eddieboi17]

erm, ok

Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
1024GB of RAM
Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 Graphics card
MAxtor 4R080J0 hard drive

 

[reggie_da_man]

Well is the hard drive that you plan on buying SATA or IDE? Make sure if it's a SATA drive your motherboard supports it. Otherwise if it's IDE you should be fine.

 

[Eddieboi17]

its a sata barrucuda 160GB hard drive im planning to get, im gonna assume the IDE is a driver that has the thin wire things that you use and you have things you have to move on it like SLAVE & MASTER control...really i wouldnt be able to know if my motherboard supports SATA or IDE lol im useless i know

 

[doodle dee]

what motherboard are you using, check to see if it has any sata inputs before you buy that hard drive.

 

[Eddieboi17]

erm how would i check what other board i have? open up the pc? lol

 

[reggie_da_man]

If you open it check and see if it has connectors like this: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Albatron/PX925XE/images/sata.jpg

The black and oragne ones

 

[Eddieboi17]

nope doesnt have those connectors, im assuming they arnt for IDE drives?

 

[chevytrucknut]

correct, those are SATA. You have IDE, so be sure you buy that one!

BTW, good choice on the Seagate Barracuda!