yet another SATA Question

collisster · 8 Nov 2006 at 18:15

I'm wanting to get a nice reliable quick hard drive for around 50 pounds what is the best one for that?
question 2, I'm assuming I dont need sata drivers as I have a sata currently Installed,
question 3, To run the drive as a slave do I just plug it into the slave connection on the cable I'm currently connected to?
question 4, My current maxtor is SATA 1 I think will my mobo support SATA2 aswell ? its an : asus A8n sli premium

collisster · 8 Nov 2006 at 18:42

great, so how come one cable has 2 connections?

collisster · 8 Nov 2006 at 18:55

ah right on closer inspection you are right its a small red un for me

so I plug a red cable into the mobo and then into the HDD attach power and then off I go? to i need to fiddle Bios or set any jumper switches?

collisster · 8 Nov 2006 at 22:29

why do I need to partition it in disk management, when I first get it should I do a mega long format or quick ?

collisster · 8 Nov 2006 at 22:47

so make the 1 big partition,
Is it pretty easy to do and self explanitory as I go along with it?

cheers for the help