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Sata 2??

Kavs · 2006-04-01 18:47:13

Can anybody tell me if a hard-drive sold as SATA - 2 will work with a SATA motherboard?? cheers.

01-04-2006 6:47pm

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Kavs

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Can anybody tell me if a hard-drive sold as SATA - 2 will work with a SATA motherboard??
cheers.

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#2 01-04-2006 6:52pm

Malafus

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SATA and SATAII are inter-operable.

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#3 01-04-2006 7:02pm

leeroybrown

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As above all SATA II drives are fully backwards compatible. There are probably very few SATA I drives left for sale.

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#4 01-04-2006 7:15pm

Kavs

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ya was finding it hard to find a SATA drive,good to hear there backwards compatible, was sweating it there a bit.
cheers.

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#5 01-04-2006 7:51pm

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Are SATA drives backward compatible with IDE?

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