- SATA II Harddisks ?
- Posted by Skybuck Flying on July 3rd, 2005
Hi,
Can SATA II harddisks be used with SATA I motherboards ?
In otherwords are SATA II harddisk backwards compatible with just SATA ?
Does this motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe support SATA II harddisks ?
Would I need an extra controller to connect the harddisks or do I simply
connect them
directly to the motherboard ?
It seems this motherboard can support 8 harddisks ???
What kind of casing is needed for that ??
Bye,
Skybuck.
- Posted by Christo on July 3rd, 2005
"Skybuck Flying" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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SATA-II hard drives CAN be plugged into older SATA slots, they obviously
wont go at the 3 Gbps of SATA II
there are IDE controllers on all boards for the CD-ROM drives
there are 4 SATA connectors on your board, this means you can have 4 SATA
hard drives (or SATA II)
you could stick 4 hard drives on the two IDE channels
you might want to keep one channel for cd-rom and dvd though
so you could have 8 hard drives if you used all of the possible connectors,
but 6 if you used one IDE channel for optical drives.
if you want to use RAID it doesn't change anything, still 4 SATA hard drives
or SATA II hard drives and setup a RAID amongst them
hope this helps
Christo
- Posted by Skybuck Flying on July 3rd, 2005
"Christo" <chrisNO-SPAM@NO-SPAMjuststuff.co.uk> wrote in message
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Hmm I have a good question 
Is it possible to use the 4 raid connectors and the 4 sata connectors at the
same time ?
If (probably) not, then the question is why not ?
If it was possible that would mean 4 drives for raid plus 4 sata drives plus
4 ide drivers... 12 drives seems a bit too much hehehehe.
(not to mention possible expansion cards and maybe even sata cables which
could connect two drives like ide ??? )
Bye,
Skybuck.
- Posted by Ron Reaugh on July 3rd, 2005
"Christo" <chrisNO-SPAM@NO-SPAMjuststuff.co.uk> wrote in message
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Obviously SATA II HDs wont go to 3 Gbps either except in very brief
non-sustained bursts.
- Posted by Folkert Rienstra on July 3rd, 2005
"Christo" <chrisNO-SPAM@NO-SPAMjuststuff.co.uk> wrote in message news:da8v9h$cvg$1@nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com
"They obviously won't go at the 3 Gbps of SATA II" either, if they are just plain 1.5Gb/s SATA-2 drives.
