Roy Pardee For Harris  

If I was to buy a new desktop PC, how likely is it to be able to accept the SATA hard drives I have in my super-old one?

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@rpardee define super old?

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Roy Pardee For Harris  

@VolleyB Dell XPS 420 ordered in 2008.

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@rpardee should be fine. If you don't want to upgrade to SSD, maybe consider an upgrade to a 7200rpm drive if don't have one and need something a bit snappier. But component wise should be okay. None of that IDE/SCSI nonsense from back in the day when we were baby nerds.

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@VolleyB Oh cool--thanks! I was hoping the bus interface thingamabob stuff had calmed down in the last 15 years or so. ;-)

I expect the new PC will come w/an SSD--it's my big disk of family photos & other media that I'd like to bring over.

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@rpardee should be able to slide it into what ever slots in your new machine and connect it to a free SATA connection and power. Might need to save a SATA cable and HD mounting hardware from your old pc but that's really it.

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