@george72 - You’ll need to find an older SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) drive or get a drive which will run at SATA II. Most drives today are SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) unless it can auto sense the systems SATA speed it won’t work! Here’s a few choices:
* [https://s3.ap-northeast-2.amazonaws.com/global.semi.static/Samsung_SSD_860_EVO_Data_Sheet_Rev1.pdf|Samsung 2.5” 860 EVO SSD] You’ll need an adapter frame to hold it in your system.
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If the spec sheet doesn’t list SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) it likely won’t work. These drives list it and work!
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If the spec sheet doesn’t list SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) it likely won’t work. The drives I’ve listed here work!
@george72 - You’ll need to find an older SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) drive or get a drive which will run at SATA II. Most drives today are SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) unless it can auto sense the systems SATA speed it won’t work! Here’s a few choices:
* [https://www.seagate.com/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/3-5-barracudaDS1900-11-1806US-en_US.pdf|Barracuda Compute 3.5” series]
* [https://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/firecuda-family/firecuda/files/firecuda-ds-1903-1-1606us.pdf|FireCuda 3.5” series]
* [https://s3.ap-northeast-2.amazonaws.com/global.semi.static/Samsung_SSD_860_EVO_Data_Sheet_Rev1.pdf|Samsung 2.5” 860 EVO SSD] You’ll need an adapter frame to hold it in your system.
If the spec sheet doesn’t list SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) it likely won’t work. These drives list it and work!