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Josh Higgs
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 Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:42 am Post subject: SATA question |
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I want to get a new motherboard and was wondering, and can't seem to find
the answer, would a SATA II be backwards compatible with a SATA hard drive?
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Mister
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| Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:23 pm Post subject: Re: SATA question |
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Yes.
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:42:24 -0800, "Josh Higgs"
<josh.higgs@charter.net> wrote:
| Quote: | I want to get a new motherboard and was wondering, and can't seem to find
the answer, would a SATA II be backwards compatible with a SATA hard drive?
Josh Higgs
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JohnO
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| Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:23 pm Post subject: Re: SATA question |
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Josh Higgs wrote:
| Quote: | I want to get a new motherboard and was wondering, and can't seem to find
the answer, would a SATA II be backwards compatible with a SATA hard drive?
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Right, same thing but the II is just potentially faster. The cool thing
to look for is an eSATA port. This will allow you to have external
drives running at the raw speed of the SATA port/hdd. IOW, way faster
than USB or Firewire will *ever* run. And, 2 meter cables are possible.
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JohnO
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| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:39 pm Post subject: Re: SATA question |
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....I'm actually glad you questioned it because it made me double
check...never trust Wiki absolutely. I'd really hate to put a mistake
like that in a book. ;-)
-John O
Barry Watzman wrote:
| Quote: | Ok, I may have messed up due to upper vs. lower case B.
From the source that you cited:
"Serial ATA uses ... resulting in an actual data transfer rate of 1.2
Gbit/s, or 150 megabytes per second (MB/s)"
That's the number that I was using, but it's 150MBps not 150Mbps (and
the same for the 300 number), which is actually a big difference.
So I retract my statement.
JohnO wrote:
According to two sources (Wiki and Mueller's 17th), SATA II is 3 Gb/s,
(300 MB/s) and Firewire 800 is 800 Mb/s (100 MB/s).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA
Although, they both could be wrong.
-John O
Barry Watzman wrote:
SATA is 150 and 300 Mbps. Firewire and USB2 are 400 and 480Mbps. It's
not at all clear that eSATA is "way faster".
JohnO wrote:
The cool thing
to look for is an eSATA port. This will allow you to have external
drives running at the raw speed of the SATA port/hdd. IOW, way faster
than USB or Firewire will *ever* run. And, 2 meter cables are possible.
-John O
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