Does sata hardrives work on sata2 mobos?

[dario03]

I now know that ata100 will work with ata133mobos but do sata hardrives work with sata2 mobos?

 

[TheMajor]

I guess it will be backwards compatible. Even though I have never heard of SATA2.

 

[switch]

SATA2 is a new standard that is coming out on some high end motherboards. The drives are not readily available yet. They claim this will have 300 Mb /sec transfer, whereas the current SATA drives have about 150 Mb/sec.

I run 2 WD raptors (raid 1 mirror) on my tower PC. That thing runs extremly fast with that setup.

Due to the limitations of the rest of the hardware in a system, it may be a while before you can see the full benifit of SATA2.

 

[MikeStanding]

That should work just fine, I once got a 386 hard drive and attatched it to my Vhs and it worked fine. Most things are compatible these days.

 

[TheMajor]

I think they would use a different cable if they weren't compatible. Do they?

 

[dario03]

Well I ask because I found this mobo on newegg
Socket 939 for amd 64 with Pci-x but wasn't sure on the sata2 but its only $122