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| Thread ID: 88613 | 2008-04-02 09:47:00 | SATA vs SATA-2 hard drives | PeterE (6851) | Press F1 |
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| 655252 | 2008-04-02 09:47:00 | I have two 80Gb SATA hard drives set in a RAID array and now ned to ugrade to perhaps two 500Gb hard drives. The current drives available are now listed as 'SATA-2'. What is the difference between SATA and SATA-2? Can I safely upgrade to the SATA-2, will they be compatible with my Gigabite GA-8KNXP? TIA, Peter. |
PeterE (6851) | ||
| 655253 | 2008-04-02 09:56:00 | They should be backward compatible. SATA2 will run at SATA1. SATA1 is 150MB/sec. SATA2 is 300MB/sec. If not mistaken :D In practice they probably won't be twice as fast :D |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 655254 | 2008-04-02 10:01:00 | They should be backward compatible. SATA2 will run at SATA1. SATA1 is 150MB/sec. SATA2 is 300MB/sec. If not mistaken :D In practice they probably won't be twice as fast :D Yup 150 and 300MB. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 655255 | 2008-04-02 10:05:00 | Just make sure you jumper them to SATA 150, or else they'll never work. As some SATA 2's maybe set to SATA 2 by default |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 655256 | 2008-04-03 07:24:00 | When buying harddrives the important things to look for is : Connection, Revolutions per minute (the higher the better), Memory Cache( the higher the better). | JUST INSANE (6682) | ||
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