SATA / SATA2

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  1. Blackout

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    Just wondering if SATA HDD is compatible with SATA-II motherboard..

    Back-up hard-drive "crooked" and motherboards North-Bridge fried so would be nice to know if I can have any out of my main SATA HDD on SATA-II motherboard before going to buy and mess up with them totally. :p
     
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    My Seagate SATA-II's have a jumper to use as SATA that you remove to run SATA-II.
     
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  3. Blackout

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    I have only SATA HDD from Maxtor which doesn't have that sort of jumper so this is why I am trying to find out if SATA HDD is possible to use on SATA-II Motherboard.
     
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  4. elokito

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    yes but not the other way around u cant use a sata 2 hd in a sata 1 mobo unless u change the jumper
     
    elokito, Jan 3, 2007
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    sata 2 is going to be one of those things that doesn't last too long
     
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  6. elokito

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    xomblei so?
     
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  7. xomblei

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    i wasn't really trying to get to any points with that post, i'm just bitter
     
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  8. elokito

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    ok...
     
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  9. Blackout

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    Yea so I have nothing to worry with my SATA HDD when I get new motherboard which says "SATA-II" on the side of package?
    If so, really nice, could get new HDD later on since starts to be running rather low on space.
     
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  10. basquiat

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    why is that? ive got a sata 2 drive on the way and planned on getting more...is there something wrong with them?
     
    basquiat, Jan 4, 2007
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  11. elokito

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    no nuthing wrong hes just.... weird
     
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