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Is SATA2 backwards compatible

Kazujo · 2006-02-08 02:13:51

Just wondering if SATA2 is backwards compatible with normal SATA. Reason being I'm looking for a smaller sized (<100Gb) SATA drive. The only ones that Komplett have a SATA2 but my mobo is only standard SATA

08-02-2006 2:13am

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Kazujo

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Just wondering if SATA2 is backwards compatible with normal SATA. Reason being I'm looking for a smaller sized (<100Gb) SATA drive. The only ones that Komplett have a SATA2 but my mobo is only standard SATA

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#2 08-02-2006 2:41am

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It should work, but you will only get the preformance of SATA

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#3 08-02-2006 9:31am

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SATA's max throughput is in the region of 150 megabytes per second....more then fast enough for any SATA drive.
SATA-II is in the region of 300mb/s

So you shouldn't really notice any differance.

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#4 08-02-2006 9:41am

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makes no difference TBH. Your drive is unlikely to peak above 80MB\s anyway.

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