Satellite A300-15B - 300 SATA-Compatible?

Hi all
I only run Kubuntu (64 bit) for the moment on my machine, but I would add an extra internal hard drive, so to reinstall Vista.

My questions are:
1. If there is no problem with the extra hard drive, (the beach is empty then why not add a few outside more GB of storage?)?
2. I found that good part of WD 500 GB but it's sata 300 so I'm not sure if my motherboard can afford it.

If the above is fine, something extra, off-topic will be if I can still use my windows activation key.

Many thanks in advance,
Nikos

Hey,.

It s absolutely no problem adding a second HDD. As you already wrote, why not add a few more ;) GB

General rule, SATA 300 (> SATA2) hard drives are not a problem. As far as I know Satellite A300 already supports SATA2 and if not all SATA2 hard drives is compatible downgrade SATA1 interface. So each SATA HDD work on each controller SATA, no compatibility issues don't.

If you install Toshiba Recovery disk Windows, no activation or product key is required.

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