SATA I or SATA II

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Hey

Im trying to find out wether my mboard has got SATA I or SATA II. For the life of my i cant fidn anything on the box on manual .. all i see is SATA 3GB/s. I've got a Gigabyte board model number GA-K8N-SLI.

If any1 could answer my riddle it would be greatly appreciated.

Also will a sata 2 hard drive work on a sata 1 motherboard ??
 
Cool now the question is will a sata 2 hdd work on a sata 1 mb ? is the hdd backwards compatible or sata controller ?
 
I got a couple sataII's with my new mobo thinking i would get better speeds...
Not an ounce quiker than sata I :( :(
 
when i received my First SATA drive & Board, as usual i cable tied all my cables neatly including my sata cable by rolling it up so its shorter and cable tied it.

The hard drive started giving problems and eventually had to return it. when i received the new hard drive, this too gave the same problems, eventually tracked it back to the SATA cable.

Read somewhere that its not recommended to fold the cable in any way. - so What now ? Do i have to live with these cables being as long as they are - or are there ways to shorten them without casing issues with the pc ???
 
biltonguy said:
I got a couple sataII's with my new mobo thinking i would get better speeds...
Not an ounce quiker than sata I :( :(
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That's because you need to use them with SATAII drives to see a performance increase.

-- I'm not aware of any SATAII drives at present. Doesn't mean to say there aren't any.
 
There wont be any noticable performance increase between the same PATA or SATA hardrives within the same generation.

Sure, there might be small increases from bigger caches and NCQ in benchmarks. NCQ might also give a smoother multitaking experience.

And eventually newer 10000rpm Raptors will push the 150mbps ( and thus use SATA1's capabilities).

Its like the highway, one CAN drive 300km/h on it, but if everyone has stock Uno's, that aint gonna be happening.


Now all bow before you master! :p
 
biltonguy said:
I got a couple sataII's with my new mobo thinking i would get better speeds...
Not an ounce quiker than sata I :( :(
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The bandwidth on SATAI (and Ultra-ATA 133 for that matter) is already overkill for normal desktop use. The only environments that can repeatedly saturate a SATAI-speed connection are disk intensive servers managing multiple concurrent I/O requests. Sure, copying your 50GB porn collection from C: to D: will saturate the bus, but that's not typically a repeated task.

As already mentioned, performance increases in SATAII will most likely be from larger caches and NCQ (but NCQ only really comes into play in RAID configurations, but then again most SATA drives are NOT verified for 24/7 RAID operation.) The only really notable performance increase comes from faster spinning drives (WD Raptors.)

IMO, because of the can't-saturate-this issue, the primary benefit of SATAII is its hot swap capability.

SATAII : buy new drives, for more money, without any real benefit ..... but I'm a critic :)
 
thisgeek said:
That's because you need to use them with SATAII drives to see a performance increase.

-- I'm not aware of any SATAII drives at present. Doesn't mean to say there aren't any.
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you can look around on computersonly.co.za they stock sata2 but i also dont notice any difference in speed and my mobo supports sata2
 
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