SATA II Harddisks ?
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From: Skybuck Flying on 3 Jul 2005 09:28 Hi, Can SATA II harddisks be used with SATA I motherboards ? In otherwords are SATA II harddisk backwards compatible with just SATA ? Does this motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe support SATA II harddisks ? Would I need an extra controller to connect the harddisks or do I simply connect them directly to the motherboard ? It seems this motherboard can support 8 harddisks ??? What kind of casing is needed for that ?? Bye, Skybuck.
From: Skybuck Flying on 3 Jul 2005 09:36 Actually I just looked at the manual (downloaded it from the website) This is a pretty cool board. I dont know how common it is on other boards... probably common ;) But it also has a primary and secondary ide slot/connector so that old harddisks can be connected as well.. cool ! It also has 4 sata connectors so I guess that is at least room for 6 harddrives ? I am not sure if the sata raid connectors can be used as normal sata connectors ? What if I dont want to use raid ? One last question about this board... What is the default bios version ? I would like to buy/use this board with athlon x2 processor... I dont have any other processors... so flashing the bios is not an option for me ;) Bye, Skybuck. "Skybuck Flying" <nospam(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:... > Hi, > > Can SATA II harddisks be used with SATA I motherboards ? > > In otherwords are SATA II harddisk backwards compatible with just SATA ? > > Does this motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe support SATA II harddisks ? > > Would I need an extra controller to connect the harddisks or do I simply > connect them > directly to the motherboard ? > > It seems this motherboard can support 8 harddisks ??? > > What kind of casing is needed for that ?? > > Bye, > Skybuck. > >
From: Stephan Grossklass on 3 Jul 2005 10:23 Skybuck Flying schrieb: > Hi, > > Can SATA II harddisks be used with SATA I motherboards ? Hard to tell, 'cause SATA-II does not even exist yet. Yes, second-gen SATA drives support 3 Gb/s transfers and possibly other additional features (and the cabling/connectors should be improved), but there is no such thing as "SATA-II". In other words, even an "old" SATA controller will swallow current drives. Stephan -- Home: http://stephan.win31.de/ PC#6: i440BX, 2xP3-500E, 704 MiB, 250+80 GB, R9k AGP 64 MiB, 110W
From: Mark A on 3 Jul 2005 11:07 "Stephan Grossklass" <sgrokla-nospam04q2(a)yahoo.de> wrote in message news:da8sdv$fic$03$1(a)news.t-online.com... > Hard to tell, 'cause SATA-II does not even exist yet. Yes, second-gen > SATA drives support 3 Gb/s transfers and possibly other additional > features (and the cabling/connectors should be improved), but there is > no such thing as "SATA-II". In other words, even an "old" SATA > controller will swallow current drives. > > Stephan > -- There are several SATA II disks shipping from Maxtor and Western Digital and a few others (check their websites). Don't expect to see a noticeable improvement in 7200 RPM SATA II drives when using applications, because the disks are limited by the rotational delay. You might see a slight improvement in benchmarks for large file transfers over SATA I.
From: Christo on 3 Jul 2005 11:12
"Skybuck Flying" <nospam(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:da8ole$12p$1(a)news6.zwoll1.ov.home.nl... > Hi, > > Can SATA II harddisks be used with SATA I motherboards ? > > In otherwords are SATA II harddisk backwards compatible with just SATA ? > > Does this motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe support SATA II harddisks ? > > Would I need an extra controller to connect the harddisks or do I simply > connect them > directly to the motherboard ? > > It seems this motherboard can support 8 harddisks ??? > > What kind of casing is needed for that ?? > > Bye, > Skybuck. > > SATA-II hard drives CAN be plugged into older SATA slots, they obviously wont go at the 3 Gbps of SATA II there are IDE controllers on all boards for the CD-ROM drives there are 4 SATA connectors on your board, this means you can have 4 SATA hard drives (or SATA II) you could stick 4 hard drives on the two IDE channels you might want to keep one channel for cd-rom and dvd though so you could have 8 hard drives if you used all of the possible connectors, but 6 if you used one IDE channel for optical drives. if you want to use RAID it doesn't change anything, still 4 SATA hard drives or SATA II hard drives and setup a RAID amongst them hope this helps Christo |