Will SATA II work on any SATA-enabled Motherboard?

[Tenshin]

I was thinking of buying a SATA disk but in my usual online shop all I seem to find are SATA II disks.

My motherboard is over 2 years old but it supports SATA, will I have any problems with SATA II hard drives? Thanks.

 

[turtile]

They will work but you won't get sata 2 features.

 

[Waphlez]

It will work. Not sure if it will run at full SATAII speeds (3.0 GB/s) but run at regular SATA (1.5 GB/s) but there isn't much of a performance increase over SATA anyways.

 

[Tenshin]

Thanks guys

 

[PZEROFGH]

Sata II is backwards compatible with sata I

i thought sata 150 was just 150mb/s

 

[Waphlez]

Sata II is backwards compatible with sata I

i thought sata 150 was just 150mb/s

http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-283-1.htm

Read the last sentence in the first paragraph.

 

[PZEROFGH]

Serial ATA (SATA) is the latest generation of the ATA interface. SATA hard drives deliver blistering transfer speeds of up to 150MB/sec.

http://techshop.earthlink.net/p10809:S1379998

Serial ATA with transfer speeds up to 150MB/sec

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1596820

http://www.itechs-systems.com/articles/a10.htm

. Take advantage of SATA/150, the world's fastest ATA interface with a 150MB per second max burst transfer rate!

http://www.kontron.com/products/pdproductdetail.cfm?keyProduct=38946

does wikipedia always hold the answers

Because Serial ATA uses 8B/10B encoding with an efficiency of 80% at the physical layer, this results in an actual data transfer rate of 1.2 gigabits per second (Gbit/s), or 150 megabytes per second.

 

[cobalt817]

SATA 150 is just the max interface speed, it does not mean that your SATA HD will run at those speeds. and SATA 2 is 3 gigs per second max speed in the interface. At present, you will only see those speeds in a RAID config. SATA 2 interface is backward compatible. But SATA 150 will not go past 150megs per sec. no mater what.