Hard drive

Older laptops use IDE hard drives, newer laptops use SATA and SSD hard drives, SATA, SSD and IDE drives are not interchangeable. Hard drives are manufactured with different interfaces that are used to connect the drive to the laptop. 

 
 
Connection interface on the drive must be the same as the controller on the motherboard.
 
Hard Drive Caddy's with Connectors

Some common drive interfaces: Solid-State Drives An SSD is flash storage. It has no moving parts. So unlike on a traditional mechanical hard drive. Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) also called Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) is an early drive controller interface that connects computers and hard disk drives. An IDE interface uses a 40-pin connector. SATA Serial ATA refers to the serial version of the ATA drive controller interface. SATA interface uses a 7-pin data connector.


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