Serial ATA

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cyrax

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What is 'Serial ATA'?

Someone told me that it was just another name for SATA, but I don't know. I'm about to order my new hard drive, but I don't know if this Western Digital 320GB Serial ATA drive is compatible with my DFI Lanparty UT-D nF4 motherboard.

Can someone clear this up?
 
Argh, wait. I've got another problem with this hard drive. It says that it's a 7,200rpm 8mb buffer drive. Is a 16mb buffer better? If it is, I can't find a drive that is a 16mb buffer but is SATA. Only SATA2 ones have 16mb buffers, and I don't think my motherboard supports SATA2.
 
cyrax said:
Argh, wait. I've got another problem with this hard drive. It says that it's a 7,200rpm 8mb buffer drive. Is a 16mb buffer better? If it is, I can't find a drive that is a 16mb buffer but is SATA. Only SATA2 ones have 16mb buffers, and I don't think my motherboard supports SATA2.

SATA2 aka SATA 3.0Gb/s is backward compatible with SATA150. I just installed 2 SATA 3.0Gb/s on my motherboard that only had 2 SATA150 ports and they worked fine. Just you have to set a jumper on the back of the hard drive to operate as SATA150 which the jumper is clearly marked on the top label.
 
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