Sata 2 with Sata 1?

M!!cook · 3 May 2006 at 11:21

Hello all!
i have 4 150gig raptors and 2 500gig sata 1 drives, crazy as it may sound, i need more space! (Mainly downloads, lots of movie work and the good old 1gig images)
I am unsure if sata 2 will work with the rest of my drives?
I have a DFI Expert.
I sata 2 backwards compatible?

Dutch Guy · 3 May 2006 at 12:24

SATAII are default SATA when you buy them, you need to use a utility to set them to SATAII sot hey work on any mobo with SATA ports.

After doing that you can only use the drives on a mobo that can use SATAII drives so if your boot drive fails you cannot connect the drives to another computer that doesn't have SATAII

M!!cook · 3 May 2006 at 15:42

so in theroy, i buy some sata 2's, i will recive them as sata 1's?

Dutch Guy · 3 May 2006 at 15:55

M!!cook said:
so in theroy, i buy some sata 2's, i will recive them as sata 1's?

Yes, I had to use a bootable CD with a utility on it to set my Hitachi drives to SATAII

smids · 3 May 2006 at 18:16

Dutch Guy said:
Yes, I had to use a bootable CD with a utility on it to set my Hitachi drives to SATAII

However Dutch Guy, this only applies to the Hitachi's. However all drive manufacturers other than Hitachi will have a jumper which you can set to force 150MB/s external transfer rate. Either way, the drive will work fine. See my sticky for more info (top of HDU forum).

Sydk · 5 May 2006 at 19:30

is there a utility available for free, which tells you all the info you need about your hdds.

A bit like CPUZ for cpus.

smids · 5 May 2006 at 20:42

Everest is pretty good from Lavalys.

ashmanq · 5 May 2006 at 23:07

sooooo much capacity!!! :eek: