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Originally Posted by mick70
I need to order a new hard drive to replace my current ailing one. It is an old pc with standard IDE plugs. Some of the HDD's I am looking at have EIDE and ULTRA etc.. interfaces,are they all compatible with the my old banger of a pc?
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EIDE is just Enhanced IDE, it is backwardly compatible, as long as your motherboard supports the capacity size. Some older motherboards for example will see a 200GB HDD as 130GB. Ultra-ATA is part of the ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment ) standard, common speeds are 33, 66, 100 and 133 MBps, most are backward compatible.