SATA II Harddisks ?
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Posted by Skybuck Flying on July 3, 2005, 4:28 pm
Please log in for more thread options Can SATA II harddisks be used with SATA I motherboards ? In otherwords are SATA II harddisk backwards compatible with just SATA ? Does this motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe support SATA II harddisks ? Would I need an extra controller to connect the harddisks or do I simply connect them directly to the motherboard ? It seems this motherboard can support 8 harddisks ??? What kind of casing is needed for that ?? Bye, Skybuck. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Christo on July 3, 2005, 4:12 pm
Please log in for more thread options SATA-II hard drives CAN be plugged into older SATA slots, they obviously wont go at the 3 Gbps of SATA II there are IDE controllers on all boards for the CD-ROM drives there are 4 SATA connectors on your board, this means you can have 4 SATA hard drives (or SATA II) you could stick 4 hard drives on the two IDE channels you might want to keep one channel for cd-rom and dvd though so you could have 8 hard drives if you used all of the possible connectors, but 6 if you used one IDE channel for optical drives. if you want to use RAID it doesn't change anything, still 4 SATA hard drives or SATA II hard drives and setup a RAID amongst them hope this helps Christo | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Skybuck Flying on July 3, 2005, 8:54 pm
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> > Hi,
> > > > Can SATA II harddisks be used with SATA I motherboards ? > > > > In otherwords are SATA II harddisk backwards compatible with just SATA ? > > > > Does this motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe support SATA II harddisks ? > > > > Would I need an extra controller to connect the harddisks or do I simply > > connect them > > directly to the motherboard ? > > > > It seems this motherboard can support 8 harddisks ??? > > > > What kind of casing is needed for that ?? > > > > Bye, > > Skybuck. > > > > >
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> SATA-II hard drives CAN be plugged into older SATA slots, they obviously > wont go at the 3 Gbps of SATA II > > there are IDE controllers on all boards for the CD-ROM drives > > there are 4 SATA connectors on your board, this means you can have 4 SATA > hard drives (or SATA II) > > you could stick 4 hard drives on the two IDE channels > > you might want to keep one channel for cd-rom and dvd though > > so you could have 8 hard drives if you used all of the possible > but 6 if you used one IDE channel for optical drives.
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> > if you want to use RAID it doesn't change anything, still 4 SATA hard > or SATA II hard drives and setup a RAID amongst them
Hmm I have a good question :) Is it possible to use the 4 raid connectors and the 4 sata connectors at the same time ? :) If (probably) not, then the question is why not ? If it was possible that would mean 4 drives for raid plus 4 sata drives plus 4 ide drivers... 12 drives seems a bit too much hehehehe. (not to mention possible expansion cards and maybe even sata cables which could connect two drives like ide ??? ) Bye, Skybuck. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Folkert Rienstra on July 4, 2005, 1:50 am
Please log in for more thread options > > Hi,
> > > > Can SATA II harddisks be used with SATA I motherboards ? > > > > In other words are SATA II harddisk backwards compatible with just SATA ? > > > > Does this motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe support SATA II harddisks ? > > > > Would I need an extra controller to connect the harddisks or do I simply > > connect them directly to the motherboard ? > > > > It seems this motherboard can support 8 harddisks ??? > > > > What kind of casing is needed for that ?? > > > > Bye, > > Skybuck. > > > > >
> SATA-II hard drives CAN be plugged into older SATA slots, > they obviously wont go at the 3 Gbps of SATA II
"They obviously won't go at the 3 Gbps of SATA II" either, if they are just plain 1.5Gb/s SATA-2 drives. >
> there are IDE controllers on all boards for the CD-ROM drives > > there are 4 SATA connectors on your board, this means you can have 4 SATA > hard drives (or SATA II) > > you could stick 4 hard drives on the two IDE channels > > you might want to keep one channel for cd-rom and dvd though > > so you could have 8 hard drives if you used all of the possible connectors, > but 6 if you used one IDE channel for optical drives. > > if you want to use RAID it doesn't change anything, still 4 SATA hard drives > or SATA II hard drives and setup a RAID amongst them > > hope this helps > > Christo | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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> Can SATA II harddisks be used with SATA I motherboards ?
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> In otherwords are SATA II harddisk backwards compatible with just SATA ?
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> Does this motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe support SATA II harddisks ?
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> Would I need an extra controller to connect the harddisks or do I simply
> connect them
> directly to the motherboard ?
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> It seems this motherboard can support 8 harddisks ???
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> What kind of casing is needed for that ??
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> Bye,
> Skybuck.
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