Laptop had has no molex pins

[BigDaddyB]

I need to replace a sata hard drive on my laptop. The bad hard drive has no molex pins yet every hard drive I look at has them. My question is can I use these hard drives?

 

[tomatthe]

Sata drives don't usually have molex power connections unless they are older sata drives. Some of the WD raptor drives used to have molex/sata power connections I believe. I've never personally seen a 2.5" HD that had a molex style connection on it. Generally you can use pretty much any 2.5" sata drive in laptops, can you post a link to one of the drives you are looking at.

 

[the great randini]

not to mention your powersupply on you laptop will not have molex

not sure your budget but if youre finding harddrives with molex you must be looking for a cheap hd so this is a decent cheapy not sure how much data u have either but,
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136564

 

[RetiredChief]

As already stated, laptops do NOT use a molex connector for neither the newer SATA 2 1/2 in drives, nor the older PATA Laptop HDDs.

Go here http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007637%20600003459&IsNodeId=1&name=SATA%203.0Gb%2fs and pick the size/performance you want.

The 7200 drives will be faster than the more common 5400 rpm drives. I pointed to the SATA II models as there is no diff in performance between a sata II and SAT III drive. However the SATA III drives are becomming more available and work fine on a sata II port. Above all else, Look at reader comments and DO NOT pick one that has a HIGH 1/2 egg review.