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Are all 500GB SATA Hard drives the same size physically?
I currently have an Asus G72GX (http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/Gaming_Powerhouse/G7...
I'm looking to upgrade to an Acer Aspire (http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Aspire-V3-571G-6407-15-...
They both have a 500GB SATA hard drive. If I were to buy the Acer, would it be as easy as taking out the hard drive from the Acer and putting the one from the Asus in it? Would they typically be the same size physically?
Worst comes to worst, I buy a connection for my old hard drive to connect to the new computer through USB and transfer the files
4 Answers
- Bassman1Lv 78 years agoFavourite answer
Laptop hard drives are 2.5 inch SATA 5400 or 7200 RPM and can be used in any laptop that uses a SATA drive, older laptops say 6 years old or older used a IDE 2.5 inch 5400 or 7200 RPM hard drive.
If you put the old laptop hard drive into the new Acer it would not work as all the drivers and utilities would be incorrect for the Acer as well as the Windows operating system would be a illegal copy of Windows for the new laptop, Buy a USB SATA hard drive enclosure install the old laptops hard drive into it connect to new laptop open the now external hard drive and copy the files to new laptop, cost from $10.00 up. Then you could format the old hard drive and use it as a external hard drive for storing files and backing up files.
- 8 years ago
NO you cant.
You see the Asus you have now has completely different hardware and Drivers to the Acer. if you do put the hard rive in you just going to have a whole bunch of software problem's and it probably just start bluescreening. And may even harm your new laptop.
Best thing to do is reinstall your programs and copy your data from your external HDD.
I'm a computer technician.
Source(s): This is my job - puccinelliLv 45 years ago
RPM is revolutions in line with minute or how briskly the platters interior are spinning. the faster they spin the greater at as quickly as documents may well be examine/written to them. So the 320GB stress is smaller yet quicker the place the 500GB is bigger yet slower. It incredibly boils right down to which you decide on greater: velocity or area. in case you will be working with super records or many records, like with audio/video modifying, gaming, or protecting a brilliant database then velocity will easily be greater considerable. otherwise the greater beneficial 180GB at lesser velocity may well be greater powerful. additionally, as Matt says, a 7200rpm computer troublesome stress will use greater electrical energy than a 5400rpm stress, i.e. your battery value won't final extremely as long.
