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by barralee

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My pc hard drive die ,looking for replacement its a wd2500jd ,can i replace it with a Western Digital Caviar SE16 320Gb ,this runs fast 300MB/s instaed of 150 and has a 16 MB cache , instead of the 8 on mine ,would this hard drvive be a straight swap.cheers for any advise.

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by thechas

How compatible the new drive is depends on your SATA controller.

Here is a link to a Western Digital PDF that list known compatible controllers.

http://www.westerndigital.com/en/library/sata/2579-701239.pdf

I suspect the drive will work. However, unless you have a SATA 3 controller, you will not see the benefit of the extra transfer speed.

As to just swapping in the drive, maybe yes, maybe no.

If you are running Windows XP or Vista, changing the hard drive may trigger an activation event if you have changed any other hardware within the past 3 months.

Chas

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