New Hard Drive

[pugmom]

My daughter's hard drive crashed. The Toshiba mk5059gsxp is the crashed one. I wanted to know if this one will work Seagate st500lt012?

 

[texasdano]

Should work fine. The higher sata 6gb/s rating is backwards compatible from what I understand. It will just run slower @ 3Gb/s like the drive that crashed instead of full rated speed. Same cables. Same form factor.

 

[ArtPog]

There's a newer version of that Seagate HDD that retails for just about the same price as the older model. It's the Seagate 500GB BarraCuda 5400 RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5" Laptop Internal Hard Drive ST500LM030
See...https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822179109&Tpk=22-179-109

or Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-2-5-Inch-Internal-ST500LM030/dp/B01M0AAA6X

So if you haven't already purchased the older model Seagate, consider the newer one.

And don't be concerned over the speed of the newer model as compared with the older model. The likelihood of ANY difference is virtually nil.