Have an old Dell GX270 and want to add second drive--this should work?

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Your motherboard has one SATA interface.  The interface is SATA1 which is 1.5Gb per second speed.  This hard drive is 3.0Gb speed.  This hard drive should work but if you have problems, you should be able to add a jumper to force the drive to run at the 1.5Gb speed.

If you can get a manual for the hard drive It should tell you how to do this.  The blogs about this this say to jumper pins 5 & 6 but I am not quite sure how to do this nor do I totally trust blogs without doing my homework.

Also be aware that some bios programs or older version of windows in older computers, limit the HD size to approximately 137 GB ... Hopefully yours doesn't.

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