HD SATA2 on xl201

[d8b]

Hi all,
I would like to buy this hd http://www.wdc.com/it/products/products.asp?driveid=336.
Is this hd compatible with sony vaio xl201?

Thank you in advance,
David

[Blencogo]

Hi David.

Yes, it should be compatible.

It is the standard size and SATA is always backward compatible so the SATA 3 should work OK in your XL.

[d8b]

Hi Blencogo,
thank you for your answer.
So, do you think there are not bios limitations about size (1TeraByte)?
I have the bios updated for Vista although I use the original Windows XP Media Center Edition.

Thank you,
David

p.s.
This is the chipset page info. It says that sata supports 3Gb/s.

[C13UGG]

Hello,

To give you some confidence, I have installed 3 1TB Samsung f1 disks and configured in a RAID 5 and haven't experienced any issues. PC boot and shut down is amazingly quick.

[d8b]

Thank you!!!

[d8b]

Installed, initialized but not formatted.
Do you think it's better to split the whole space with partitions?
If yes, how?
I thought at least 2 partitions: 1 primary for boot disk backup, 1 for archive.
The first hd is partitioned as sony default: 3 partitions: 1 recovery, 1 windows xp, 1 data.

Thank you.