Sata 1.5

Maddhatter

Maddhatter

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my motherboard has an SATA connector that supports up to 1.5 GB/s if i got an SATA 2 HD would it still work with my mobo?
 
Wait what? SATA drives don't require jumper settings. Either SATA format is compatable with the other and does not require any settings to be made/changed. And no, there's not a huge difference in speeds. Not unless you get a high perfomace drive.
 
I just made a post asking the same question and that is what they told me, I just passed it on...it was called sata help...look
 
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The_Other_One said:
Wait what? SATA drives don't require jumper settings. Either SATA format is compatable with the other and does not require any settings to be made/changed. And no, there's not a huge difference in speeds. Not unless you get a high perfomace drive.
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Yes they do!
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Yeah, I did a little research and found some did, but I swear my last few drives DID NOT have any sort of jumper on them. The place where the pins are had no pins!
 
Most don't, but some do, but they arn't normally used for the same thing that a tradidtional IDE drive uses jumper pins for
 
Normally the factory will use them, but in the case of use a SATA on a SATA2 or vise versa you will most likely need to do that. It just makes things run smoother. Its like have RAM that runs at 200MHz when you FSB is 400MHz. My 3GB/s HDD is made for SATA (and I have SATA) And has a external data rate of 150MB/s (that's how fast it travels through the wire) and 150MB/s = SATA 300MB/s =SATA2 that fact that it goes 1.5GB is an internal speed, not a transfer speed. And in fact, even 150MB/s is a theoretical speed and in reality may never get to those rates. The fact that IDE NEEDS the jumper is so that it works in unison with the drivers installed to make it run. SATA Hard drives need no drivers and there for never really need the jumper because to connect 2 IDE drives you use one cable and there for you need the drivers and the jumpers to determine which HDD is slave and which is master. On the other hand SATA has a separate connector on the MOBO for each Hard drive, you you need no drivers or jumpers to tell which is hard drive #1, #2, #3 etc.
 
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