Dead HDD

[CapricornOne]

Hope this is the right section!

My girlfriend's HDD died in her HP-Compaq Presario CQ61-310sa and I'm looking for a replacement. Was just wondering if there will be compatibility issues with a new SATA 3.0 drive (the stock one was 1.5). Also if there would be a problem with getting a 7200rpm drive (stock was 5400)

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[saedrin]

No and no. Sata 3.0 is backwards compatible, and spindle speed has no bearing on compatibility.

 

[CapricornOne]

Thanks for the quick reply! That's great! So any of these drives will suffice? And I assume swapping out the old for the new is pretty simple?

Thanks again

 

[Deleted member 88227]

Any SATA drive will work, but if you're going with a SSD then I recommend you either get a Crucial M4 series or Intel 510 series, Crucial M4s being the cheaper of the two.

If you are getting an HDD, then I recommend looking for the Samsung Spinpoint F3 7200 RPM 1TB hard drive, as it's usually cheaper than similar hard drives, yet it's just as fast if not faster than them.