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Sata and IDE?
Name: azzhole Date: September 17, 2006 at 07:31:57 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro CPU/Ram: 64 3200 skt754, 768mb PC3 Product: Aries
Comment:
Right now, I have all my IDE slots filled up. (2 ports, 4 devices)
I want to add another harddrive. But I wondered could I have SATA and IDE at the same time. My mobo supports SATA drives and IDE, but I don't know about the same time.
I have a K8NF4G-SATA2 (ASRock I think)
Thanks
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Name: Tubesandwires Date: September 17, 2006 at 08:17:21 Pacific
Reply:
It will support both at the same time. Depending on what type of SATA controllers/headers you have, you can have as many as 2 or 4 SATA drives as well, for a total of 6 or 8 drives. Pay attention to whether the SATA supported by the mboard is SATA or SATA 2. If it is SATA only, and you get a SATA 2 drive, it is wise to get a drive that has a jumper that can force SATA/150mbps mode (e.g. some Samsung), because many SATA mboards will not recognize a SATA 2 drive otherwise.
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Response Number 2
Name: ham30 Date: September 17, 2006 at 09:05:19 Pacific
Reply:
Note that using SATA 1 will not slow down the drive. Both SATA 1 and SATA 2 interfaces are capable of much faster speeds than any hard drive available today.
Do yourself a favor BACKUP!
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Response Number 3
Name: jam Date: September 17, 2006 at 18:11:37 Pacific
Reply:
theoretically....
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Response Number 4
Name: ham30 Date: September 17, 2006 at 22:14:50 Pacific
Reply:
Yeah Jam, I wonder if they do have any drives in development that are fast enough to test their maximum throughput. I guess they could do it with simulated drives using RAM.
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