sata II combatible?

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  1. Jay05

    Jay05 Regular member

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    what is sata II? compared to sata...
    if i used sata will sata ii work on mine? signiture for specs
     
    Jay05, Sep 29, 2006
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    edit your specs to forum specs.
    1. Text-only signatures should have at most 5 lines of text.
    sata 2 supposedly transfer at 3gig a sec compared to sata 1 of 1.5g a sec. is compatible with sata 1 motherboard connectors
     
    ddp, Sep 30, 2006
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    Sry about the sig...

    thank you for confirming that sata 1 mobos are compatible with sata 2 hard drives...
     
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    SATA-II has twice the data transfer rate of SATA-I. I believe the SATA-II has better support for Native Command Queuing, which reduces the amount of head travel (and greatly increases speed) on the drive. SATA-II is backwards-compatible with SATA-I, though I don't know if you buy a drive with NCQ, whether it'll work. But it should.
     
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    Sata I = 1.5gb/second
    Sata II = 3gb/ second
     
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    sata is better than IDE..ATA??? (Hard drive wise...)
     
    Jay05, Oct 1, 2006
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    sata is supposedly hot plug & play compared to ide besides being supposedly faster.
     
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    Yes. Really less latency, although I believe the SATA-II drives themselves are somewhat faster too. Either way, yes, it's faster. If you are comtemplating getting a new drive, I'd get a SATA-II with NCQ. I'm not sure if your motherboard supports SATA-II or NCQ, but at least you'll be ready if you upgrade motherboards.
     
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