your friend has a lenovo IdeaPad N580 laptop, and the hard drive has failed. Her uncle has offered to give her a working hard drive he no longer needs, the Toshiba mk8009GAH 80-GB 4200-RPM drive. Will this drive fit this laptop? why or why not
Toshiba mk8009GAH 80-GB 4200-RPM will not fit on Lenovo Ideapad N580.
This is because the drive form factor and interface do not match.
The form factor is the specification of the hard drive which determines the physical size or geometry of the drive.
The Ideapad N580 will fit HDD of form factor 2.5" (2.5 Inch) but the form factor of Toshiba mk8009GAH is 1.8" hence won't fit in the slot.
The interface type specifies which type of connector used to connect the motherboard and the HDD and it should be the same in order to use on it.
Ideapad uses the SATA interface type to connect the HDD but the Toshiba mk8009GAH is having an ATA type interface on it hence they cannot be connected with each other.
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