Sata/sata150/sata300/sataii

[cwiz]

ok, i've got a mobo that says it is SATA150 and i have 2 raptors hooked up which are SATA150. If i hook up a hard drive that is SATAII or SATA300, will it work?

i didnt realize my mobo was SATA150 when i bought it :/ i'm pretty sure a SATAII/300 (is sataII and sata300 the same?) mobo will work with SATA150 hd's, but i dont know about the other way around.

thanks!

 

[b1gapl]

An SATA II hard drive, is backwards compatible with an SATA150 slot. So yes, it will work. Just at SATA150 speeds.

 

[MacDaddyGator]

Are there any SATA 300 Raptors?

 

[b1gapl]

Nope, there aren't. As far as I know, all 10k rpm hard drives are SATA 150.

 

[cwiz]

excellent, 500GB sata300/sataII drives are way cheaper than sata150's

 

[Wildside]

omg then that means my close friend bought a Raptor by mistake. **** it. I knew he should of gotten a Seagate.

 

[pinoy3000]

Its not like you need or even use 150MB/s transfer speed anyway. More RPM's will have better performance than the transfer speed especially that the transfer speed is not even at 100% all the time.

 

[Wildside]

Its not like you need or even use 150MB/s transfer speed anyway. More RPM's will have better performance than the transfer speed especially that the transfer speed is not even at 100% all the time.

FVI, if u go to Wikipedia.org n check out SATA 6.0 GBit/s, that is pretty **** fast n im still waiting from a HDD SATA 6.0 GBit/s to come out.

Serial ATA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[pinoy3000]

FVI, if u go to Wikipedia.org n check out SATA 6.0 GBit/s, that is pretty **** fast n im still waiting from a HDD SATA 6.0 GBit/s to come out.

Serial ATA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well, here you go....

3.5" Hard Drive Charts | Tom's Hardware

See which ones have the best performance overall. The Raptor 10k RPM Drivers are on the top 10 of all benchmark/scores.

Well I didnt really look at all of them but all the ones I looked at have the Raptors on the top ten.

As you can see, they perform better. 3.0GB/s lolz, when would you really use that? Its just its effective/maximum transfer rate or whatever. Its how much its capable of transfering, not how much your drive will work all the time.