Hello. Erm, I need a pretty big hard drive, and it seems all the ones above a certain storage capacity are labelled SATA-II on OCUK. Now this was fine but there didn't seem to be half as many motherboards which were labelled as supporting SATA-II when I was just looking. However there are a few that are labelled as having SATA 3Gb/s. Are these the same thing? Should I assume most motherboards support SATA-II unless otherwise stated? It's confusing me a bit but I just wanted to make sure that what i got was compatible...Thanks.
Ahh thanks. You could have added a "use the search function you idiotic pootripe" in that post you know? So, to use this drive: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Maxtor_195.html#aHD_2d090_2dMD I wouldn't HAVE to use this board? : http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Socket_939_483.html#aMB_2d088_2dAS Thanks I think I'm done with the gormlessness once that's been answered.
sata / sataII is backward compatible thers only some intances where you would need to lock the rive ( with a jumper ) to 1.5GB/S to work on a non sataII compatible board. so yea in a nutshell. it doesnt matter cos it will work regardless but dont go intot rush buys !, have a looka round the forum and read other peopels threads alot to find out more intfo abbout what would work best for you. Rick
I would advise against getting a maxtor atm, the current batches havent been the most reliable to say the least.
