SATA Hard Drive on Acer Veriton 7600GT?

macman
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Does anyone who owns one of these know if the motherboard has SATA ports on it, and if the standard 80GB hard drive is SATA or IDE please?
Trying to arrange to add a second hard drive to one of these without having seen it yet, and the Acer documentation is rather vague as to the actual spec. Some references are to two SATA ports, but others refer to the hard drive as IDE.
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  • HO87
    HO87 Posts: 4,296 Forumite
    The Acer Support site suggests IDE only. See Here (Supported protocols section)
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  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
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    Thanks-yet the generic manual for that series shows a mobo connector diagram with 2 SATA ports on it...
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • spud17
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    Move along, nothing to see.
  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
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    Thanks, pretty sure now that it does come with 2 SATA ports as per your pic,but what I can't establish is whether it came with a SATA hard drive as standard, or some were IDE. I'll have to go over and have a look to make sure.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • spud17
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    If it's around 4/5 yo then I'll stick my neck out and say it's IDE.

    http://www.ciao.co.uk/Productinformation/Acer_Veriton_7600GT__5810936
    Move along, nothing to see.
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