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From: yirg.kenya on 27 Apr 2010 05:12
My wife's 40 GB drive on her Inspiron 6000 is totally full and I want
to replace it with a (much) larger one.

It's a Toshiba Proteus which looks to have an E-IDE interface. But I'm
confused about what type of interface I need since they seem to be
categorized on the sites I've looked at as SATA (most) or ATA/IDE
others. (Maybe this gives it away.)

So, not to ask a stupid question (but if I don't ask how will I know)
will either of these do or am I limited to the ATA drives?



From: MJMIII on 27 Apr 2010 06:20
"yirg.kenya" <yirg.kenya(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> My wife's 40 GB drive on her Inspiron 6000 is totally full and I want
> to replace it with a (much) larger one.
>
> It's a Toshiba Proteus which looks to have an E-IDE interface. But I'm
> confused about what type of interface I need since they seem to be
> categorized on the sites I've looked at as SATA (most) or ATA/IDE
> others. (Maybe this gives it away.)
>
> So, not to ask a stupid question (but if I don't ask how will I know)
> will either of these do or am I limited to the ATA drives?

....and your Dell question is????
--


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If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."


From: Ben Myers on 27 Apr 2010 09:39
On 4/27/2010 5:12 AM, yirg.kenya wrote:
> My wife's 40 GB drive on her Inspiron 6000 is totally full and I want
> to replace it with a (much) larger one.
>
> It's a Toshiba Proteus which looks to have an E-IDE interface. But I'm
> confused about what type of interface I need since they seem to be
> categorized on the sites I've looked at as SATA (most) or ATA/IDE
> others. (Maybe this gives it away.)
>
> So, not to ask a stupid question (but if I don't ask how will I know)
> will either of these do or am I limited to the ATA drives?
>
>
>
If there is a Dell question in here, the Inspiron 6000 uses parallel ATA
drives. Like any laptop with parallel ATA drives, it can use ONLY
parallel ATA drives, not SATA drives.

I have no clue what is a Toshiba Proteus... Ben Myers
From: yirg.kenya on 27 Apr 2010 13:58
On Apr 27, 6:39 am, Ben Myers <ben_my...(a)charter.net> wrote:
> On 4/27/2010 5:12 AM, yirg.kenya wrote:> My wife's 40 GB drive on her Inspiron 6000 is totally full and I want
> > to replace it with a (much) larger one.
>
> > It's a Toshiba Proteus which looks to have an E-IDE interface. But I'm
> > confused about what type of interface I need since they seem to be
> > categorized on the sites I've looked at as SATA (most) or ATA/IDE
> > others. (Maybe this gives it away.)
>
> > So, not to ask a stupid question (but if I don't ask how will I know)
> > will either of these do or am I limited to the ATA drives?
>
> If there is a Dell question in here, the Inspiron 6000 uses parallel ATA
> drives.  Like any laptop with parallel ATA drives, it can use ONLY
> parallel ATA drives, not SATA drives.
>
> I have no clue what is a Toshiba Proteus... Ben Myers

Yes, that was my question. Toshiba Proteus is the drive model Dell
installed in the Inspiron 6000 we have. Looked it up via the service
tag.
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