Is there a hard drive compatibility to crucial.com?

 

 

 

If you don't know what Crucial is, it's basically a site that can scan your computer and see what RAM works with your system. I am wondering if there is something that gives the same thing for hard drives (and graphics cards maybe?).

 

 

 

Thanks ahead of time.

Just curious, but why do you need to know your hard drive specifications? There is really only four different options that effect a hard drive in most cases that cannot be automatically found by just looking in my computer - HDD size (either 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch) and IDE or SATA. Size can be found by the type of computer - almost all desktops use 3.5 inch hard drives, while almost all laptops use 2.5 inch drives, and SATA/IDE can usually be determined by the age of the computer - most desktops made after 2004 or so are SATA based, while ones before that time were IDE based. Almost all laptops up until very recently (About a year now?) used IDE due to its slightly lower power consumption. Other then that, as long as you get those correct just about any part should be compatible. To find your graphics specs, just go to run and type "dxdiag", and click the graphics tab.

I guess my main reason was that not many hard drives are still IDE(like my system) compatible and the same goes with mobo's.

If you know it isn't IDE compatible then get a SATA hard drive...

 

 

 

Unless I'm completely misunderstanding you here.

Nadril, I think you did misunderstand me. My computer is IDE compatible and I'm very certain my mobo doesn't have a SATA port.

Nadril, I think you did misunderstand me. My computer is IDE compatible and I'm very certain my mobo doesn't have a SATA port.

 

 

 

Then...get an IDE hard drive?

That's just the thing. They are slowly getting rid of them and was wondering if there was an easy way (hence me making this thread) that could tell me what HDD would work.

If it says it's an IDE hard drive it will work. I mean Here is a list of IDE hard drives. Just pick one.