Hi, I'm in need of a new Hard Drive and my current motherboard (Abit NF7-s) supports SATA, I currently have a 120GB and an 80GB drive, but I'm looking to change the 80GB one for a 200-300GB, I am intending to upgrade to a new machine with a socket M2, DDR2, SATA 2 motherboard once it becomes available, but I want to stick to what I have for the time being. Therefore, I want to know whether it's worth buying a SATA2 HDD now, to keep for later on. Can I use a SATA2 HDD with my SATA motherboard? I have heard that some SATA2 HDD's have a jumper which allows them to be used as regular SATA, but the SATA2 drives I have looked at don't mention this in the product description?!? Which brands do have this feature?. Also, when I upgrade to a SATA2 motherboard, will my old SATA drive be compatible with the SATA2 interface?? Thanks in advance for any help! AMD AthlonXP 2200+ Abit NF7-S v2.0 Geforce4 Ti4200 128mb 1GB Crucial PC2700 80GB & 120GB SATA HDD's SB Audigy2 ZS Enermax Noisetaker 485W

i'm not sure about the jumper thing, but as far as what HDD to get... Hard Drives cannot even utilize the old IDE (ATA/133) interface, nevermind reach SATA speeds. point being, by the time HDD technology allows them to actaully utilize SATA2 speeds, your board will be obsolete for other reasons. so getting a SATA2 drive now would be useless. SATA1 drives are about the same price as IDE drives, so for that reason alone.. I would get a SATA150 (SATA1) drive It says not to put a question here... why not?