Sata2 question

Mang0 Tree · 13 Aug 2006 at 08:19

Hi

I have a Asus board that comes with SATA2, and want to install a Raptor plus a Maxtor 250G SATA2 to it.

Will the Maxtor default back to SATA 1 speed if I mix & match the drives?

Thanks

hp7909 · 13 Aug 2006 at 08:31

Mang0 Tree said:
{snip}Will the Maxtor default back to SATA 1 speed if I mix & match the drives?{snip}

If the SATA Connectors on mobo you are using support SATAII then NO

Which mobo is it?

Mang0 Tree · 13 Aug 2006 at 09:33

It's the Asus 939 NF4-E Ultra

I'm hoping to use the Raptor for Win only, with the Maxtor for all the other stuff. I already have another Maxtor in another PC, and it's really fast, I really don't want to lose the speed if the mobo detects a mixture of drives connected to it.

hp7909 · 13 Aug 2006 at 10:00

Mang0 Tree said:
It's the Asus 939 NF4-E Ultra

I'm hoping to use the Raptor for Win only, with the Maxtor for all the other stuff. I already have another Maxtor in another PC, and it's really fast, I really don't want to lose the speed if the mobo detects a mixture of drives connected to it.

Highly doubt that would happen. Beauty of SATA is that theirs some form of independence because each HD as its own cable unlike IDE (Master-Slave thing).

Is that the Asus A8N-E? That has full SATAII support...

A8N-E supports next-generation SATA hard drives based on the new SATA 3Gb/s storage specification. Furthermore, the chipset has two dedicated SATA controllers delivering more scalable performance and doubles the bus bandwidth for fast hard drive data retrieval and saves.

Mang0 Tree · 13 Aug 2006 at 12:54

Yes, it's the Asus A8N-E

The reason I asked is because I remember reading somewhere that if you connect SATA and SATA2 drives into a motherboard, the SATA2's drive will run at SATA1 speed...

I guess this is no longer true

hp7909 · 13 Aug 2006 at 13:53

Mang0 Tree said:
Yes, it's the Asus A8N-E

The reason I asked is because I remember reading somewhere that if you connect SATA and SATA2 drives into a motherboard, the SATA2's drive will run at SATA1 speed...

I guess this is no longer true

One HD is SATA & not SATAII?? :confused:

smids · 13 Aug 2006 at 14:31

All SATA drives are independent of each other. One can run at 300MB/s whilst the other is running at 150MB/s. I have had this previously in my setup and it worked fine.

Thanks for this though - I'll add this to my SATA-II sticky in the HDU forum.

EDIT: Actually I had already answered it in question 7 of my sticky....

stoofa · 13 Aug 2006 at 16:33

You have to go a long time back in "computer history" to a time when the slowest drive limited a much faster one.
For the last 4-5 years (at least) I could place an ATA133 HD on the same PATA channel as say an ATA33 CD-ROM drive and both would operate at their maximum speed.

Mang0 Tree · 13 Aug 2006 at 20:46

Cheers for clearing this up for me guys

The PC I was planning to build today has been put on hold temporarily, just found out my new GC didn't have a PCI-E cable in the box :confused:

smids · 13 Aug 2006 at 21:06

Mang0 Tree said:
Cheers for clearing this up for me guys

The PC I was planning to build today has been put on hold temporarily, just found out my new GC didn't have a PCI-E cable in the box

Not many do, only certain ones and those intended for SLi really ever come with one.