Satellite 2450 HDD upgrade

Hello all,
after reading a bit about the issues related to uprading HDD on laptops, I write to know if anybody has experience of doing so on a Satellite 2450 model (-101), which came with a 30Gb HD (MK3021GAS).
I'd wish to install a 80GB HD (like MK8025GAS), anybody can give me an advice on which HD model would be better to use? Behind BIOS possible limitations, I've noticed a different interface specification (e.g. this one has ATA-6, while my current one has DMA/ATA-100, and I'm not sure to know the meaning of this...).
Thanks a lot in advance,
Alberto.

Hi
I have investigated a little bit and I have found a information that unit supports only the 30GB, 40GB and 80GB HDDs.
HDD2181B 30GB
HHD2182B 40GB
HDD2171B 40GB
HDD2183B 60GB
HDD2184B 60GB
The HDD supports 100 MAX Ultra DMA mode
Hope this will help you a little bit
regards

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