WD Caviar 450AA - can I easily replaced this drive with a newer model?

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
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My internal drive has fatally crashed after 10 years faithful service. Since I don’t want to junk my very old ASUS desktop; I’m wondering if I can get a newer superior version of this drive at a reasonable price and more importantly will it be physically and technically compatible?

Any suggestions on suitable drive models and ballpark prices please?

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depending on the chipset of your mobo (asus model #?) you might be able to get a small enough IDE drive (< 128gb) that will still work, such as http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136457

if not, you will have to get an ide addon card that will support the larger drives used today

at that point, you mine as well get a sata card and get a sata drive

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Thanks I’ll check out the web link.