Sata II HDD and ASRock Mobo

Liquid_Entity · 11 Jul 2006 at 20:23

Will a WD2500KS Caviar SE16, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache work with a Asrock AR-939 DUAL-SATA2 ULi M1695 moherboard ??????

mosfet · 11 Jul 2006 at 20:38

It's a SATA interface drive and a motherboard with a SATA interface, isn't it fairly simple? Yes.

dalex · 11 Jul 2006 at 20:40

dont forget the sata drivers on a floppy before formatting and set the selector on the hard drive
dave

Liquid_Entity · 11 Jul 2006 at 23:04

mosfet said:
It's a SATA interface drive and a motherboard with a SATA interface, isn't it fairly simple? Yes.

how rude !!

Was just concerned as the motherboard is a bit on the naff side and the hard drive is a bit on the good side. Also confused me with the SATA300 bit.

I am quite clever enough to work out that a Sata drive will work with a Sata motherboard merely questioning it's ability to function at its optimum level.

Mr Men · 11 Jul 2006 at 23:21

Why is the mobo on the naff side?

Maybe your the rude one, lots of people on here use the said naff mobo :rolleyes:

mosfet · 12 Jul 2006 at 00:24

Liquid_Entity said:
how rude !!

Sorry mate, but you came on here asking a blatently obvious question (the motherboard has the word "SATA2" in it). I reserve the right to be rude.

I am quite clever enough to work out that a Sata drive will work with a Sata motherboard merely questioning it's ability to function at its optimum level.

So why didn't you ask that, rather than what you're "quite clever enough to work out"?

Yes, it'll work, and on the SATA2 controller on your board it'll work at 3Gbps, but you probably won't notice any vast improvement over the standard SATA 1.0 controller.

benjo · 12 Jul 2006 at 00:34

Liquid_Entity said:
how rude !!

the motherboard is a bit on the naff side

lol, sorry but thats wrong :rolleyes:

Its one of the best boards for an upgrader! Dont be put off by its name.. It's manufactured by Asus. It's not meant to be good at clocking. But my 3700 is at 2.7 on stock volts. Hardly naff is it