I have a Del XPS 8300 ST1000M003-9YN162 Sata TR= 6GB/s is this drive compatible with my system and would I get better performance from this drive as I
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This drive is compatible with all sata 3 and 2 motherboards. As for performance, I see increases in boot times and a few other most commonly used applications such as internet explorer and mail programs. Boot went from 3 minutes to about 50 seconds to log in screen. I have a lot of stuff loading so it takes a while after login before everything loads. Only 8 gig of ssd so you have to figure how big your programs are in memory. more than that, I would recommend a real SSD, but it costs for this kind of storage space.
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Yes it will work, the drive is exceptional faster than a standard, the only flaw I had seen, With Windows 7, or the bios at first instal it confused my D drive as the primary rather than the C, So I had to reformat and reinstall, the second time was all good though. I like it, It works great for me, I can hear windows booting even before my screen comes up after bios boot. Considering the price v/s solid state, I will get me another hybrid. You can never go wrong with Seagate quality anyways, that is why banks prefer Seagate in there PC's.
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Yes, the drive is compatible and would probably boost your performance if employed as a boot drive.
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The drive would be compatible, but I am not seeing a dramatic increase in performance.
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If you go to crucial.com, you can enter your make/model and it will tell you which products will work. This is very similar to system I installed the drive in, no problems, huge performance boost. But double check crucial ' s site before purchasing.
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From the specifications I looked at YES should work.These are the specs that I used to give the answer:Storage Hard drive size 250GB Hard drive speed 5400 rpmOptical Drive Super Drive (DVD WR/ CD WR)Type of harddrive SATAMemoryMaximum memory Up to 8GBNumber of memory slots 2Installed RAM 2GB Type of memory DDR3If the above specs look like yours you can upgraade with 2 sticks of 4GB eachTotal after upgrade 8GBAt these prices and performance you cannot go wrong.Geo
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As the other two people mentioned, it will definitely work, whether you're using SATA-I, SATA-II, or SATA-III.The only hitch is (of course) that you will not be exploiting the full potential of the SSD on any system that uses the earlier two revisions of SATA.Still, the speedup advantage is probably more noticeable over conventional hard drives on older revision systems, and you can always upgrade to a system with SATA-III later and drop this SSD into it and see what it can REALLY do.
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Yes it will work fine. I like the way it's answered on this page: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/19253643.aspx Keep in mind that when the person asking says 3gb drive he means sata 3.
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If your system's motherboard supports SATA drives, then it should work fine. If its an older motherboard, it may only support slower SATA speeds but it will still be faster than a mechanical drive.
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It would probably work but I'd imagine the speed wouldn't be any better for than any other sata 1 drive you've had. If possible you should pick up a PCI SATA 3.0 controller or at least a 2.0 controller an use it that way if anything. Otherwise it might not even be worth it unless you plan to use it for a future build also.
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This hard drive is compatible with sata 6gb? I hope your early reply thank you in advance.
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Hello, I'm Jewel with Kingston Technical Support, here to answer your question. That is not correct. The SSD like other internal drives is not operating system specific and will function in systems with SATA3 or SATA2 connections. What is operating system specific is the Acronis TruImage Cloning software included in the bundle package. New current version that is shipping is compatible with Windows 8/8.1. For any further assistance, please call us at 1-800-435-0640 (USA and Canada only) M - F 6am - 6pm PT and I or another available Technician will assist you.Thank you for selecting Kingston as your upgrade partner. Hello, I'm Jewel with Kingston Technical Support, here to answer your question. That is not correct. The SSD like other internal drives is not operating system specific and will function in systems with SATA3 or SATA2 connections. What is operating system specific is the Acronis TruImage Cloning software included in the bundle package. New current version that is shipping is compatible with Windows 8/8.1. For any further assistance, please call us at 1-800-435-0640 (USA and Canada only) M - F 6am - 6pm PT and I or another available Technician will assist you.Thank you for... » Read More Hello, I'm Jewel with Kingston Technical Support, here to answer your question. That is not correct. The SSD like other internal drives is not operating system specific and will function in systems with SATA3 or SATA2 connections. What is operating system specific is the Acronis TruImage Cloning software included in the bundle package. New current version that is shipping is compatible with Windows 8/8.1. For any further assistance, please call us at 1-800-435-0640 (USA and Canada only) M - F 6am - 6pm PT and I or another available Technician will assist you.Thank you for selecting Kingston as your upgrade partner. « Show Less
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I wondered the same thing when I bought it since I wanted to be certain of this. The manufacturer said it was "compatible" with SATA III, but that does not necessarily mean anything. The external interface is USB 3.0 and limtied to 5Gbits/sec max throughput, of course. Anyway, after testing with a fast 3.5" 7200 disk drive, I came to the conclusion that the drive internally is running at max performance for its platter write speeds - as you can see from my reported review. Unless I were to check with an SSD, I would not be certain of the interface, but my educated guess is that it is is an internal SATA III interface ... hope that helps! I wondered the same thing when I bought it since I wanted to be certain of this. The manufacturer said it was "compatible" with SATA III, but that does not necessarily mean anything. The external interface is USB 3.0 and limtied to 5Gbits/sec max throughput, of course. Anyway, after testing with a fast 3.5" 7200 disk drive, I came to the conclusion that the drive internally is running at max performance for its platter write speeds - as you can see from my reported review. Unless I were to check with an SSD, I would not be certain of the interface, but my educated guess is... » Read More I wondered the same thing when I bought it since I wanted to be certain of this. The manufacturer said it was "compatible" with SATA III, but that does not necessarily mean anything. The external interface is USB 3.0 and limtied to 5Gbits/sec max throughput, of course. Anyway, after testing with a fast 3.5" 7200 disk drive, I came to the conclusion that the drive internally is running at max performance for its platter write speeds - as you can see from my reported review. Unless I were to check with an SSD, I would not be certain of the interface, but my educated guess is that it is is an internal SATA III interface ... hope that helps! « Show Less
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100% compatible. Lol, but seriously it's still a decent drive. You won't notice any difference compared to a newer 64mb 7200 rpm drive. Just don't buy it used.
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you can install any hard drive SATA or SAS as long you have the correct cables or asapters please the Dell Guide for compatibiliries thanks
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This particular drive is an EARS drive meaning that it is an advanced format drive which won't run by default in XP. Western Digital has set up a page to help users get it working in XP however I'm not an XP user so I'm not sure how straight-forward the steps are. You might be more interested in a EADS drive which should work fine out of the box for you. Unfortunately the 1.5 TB EADS drive costs 99 while this 2.0 TB EARS drive costs 89.
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This drive uses a SATA II 6 Gb/S interface which is backwards compatible with SATA interfaces found in most recent motherboards. As long as your motherboard supports SATA (Serial ATA interface) you can use this drive. To get the full performance out of it though you will need a SATA II interface on your MB or on a card. If you have a very very old Desktop PC (10+ years) then you might only have the IDE interface which would not be compatible.Look up your desktop PC's motherboard and see if it has a SATA or SATA II interface.
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Yes, however the speed results will be limited to which speed sata your motherboard supports. Still a major upgrade over regular mechanical hds though. Operating system startup time and folder access will be considerably faster.
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I have not tried it, but it should be fine. It doesn't care what SATA drive you plug in really, it's up to the OS to figure that out anyway.
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Yes, these are both SATA drives and have the same capacity, so it should work just fine.