Sata card and new hard drive

Juice Daddy · Jul 18, 2006

will these work together?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136003
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816132006

I plan to buy those later today or tommorow... (depending on how soon my question is answered)

if anyone knows of a better combo... feel free to post it

my price range is about $140 for both

j3wcl@w · Jul 18, 2006

The answer is no cos the hard drive is sata 2 3.0gb but the controler card is only sata 1 1.5 gb x4

Snake-Eyes · Jul 18, 2006

This is what you want for that drive:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816102065

Yes, it is a bit pricey, but the other (cheaper) ones are for PCI-E.

BTW, in your sig, you misspelled "TV Tuner."

IfYouHaveToAsk · Jul 18, 2006

j3wcl@w said:
The answer is no cos the hard drive is sata 2 3.0gb but the controler card is only sata 1 1.5 gb x4

im sure there backwards compatible.. can anyone back me up?

Ethereal_Dragon · Jul 18, 2006

Yes, they would be backwards compatible, but the drive would only run at 1.5Gb/s

Juice Daddy · Jul 19, 2006

would it make much of a difference?

that's a little out of my budget

Juice Daddy · Jul 21, 2006

anyone?

I have about $150 to spend...

edit:
I only have pci slots (not pci-e)