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I have the old sata 150 connectors on my mobo, and i just ordered one of the new WD Caviars with the 16mb cache and 250 gigs of space (a refreshing upgrade, my current raptor only has 36gigs). It's a SATA2 HD, and I need to know whether or not I will be able to use it with my current mobo. Newegg reviews suggest there is a jumper that can toggle the data stream from SATA2 so normal SATA, but I really would like additional confirmation.
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backwards compatibilty....
Unfortunately, there's little significant performance difference between IDE vs SATA vs SATA2
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sooo is it going to work? or should i be looking at a new mobo?
Intel P4 3.4ghz
ATi X850 XT PE
2 Gigs Corsair XMS
WD Caviar 200gig 16m CachWD Caviar 200gig 16m Cache
Thermaltake Bigwater WC system, additional Zalman block on VGA
Thermaltake Armor Ca
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aaaaaand what does that mean>
Intel P4 3.4ghz
ATi X850 XT PE
2 Gigs Corsair XMS
WD Caviar 200gig 16m CachWD Caviar 200gig 16m Cache
Thermaltake Bigwater WC system, additional Zalman block on VGA
Thermaltake Armor Ca
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one reviewer on newegg said "-If your mainboard is SATA-150 only, you MUST jumper these drives to that setting or they won't detect!-" It seemed to me that the drive has a jumper in which you can select the setting... Am i right?
also, http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustRatingReview.asp?Item=N82E16822144701
scroll down and you will find the comment.Intel P4 3.4ghz
ATi X850 XT PE
2 Gigs Corsair XMS
WD Caviar 200gig 16m CachWD Caviar 200gig 16m Cache
Thermaltake Bigwater WC system, additional Zalman block on VGA
Thermaltake Armor Ca
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I found it to be a huge performance increase when I went from IDE to SATA. My hard drive doesn't even read now. I think it's telepathic!
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"I found it to be a huge performance increase when I went from IDE to SATA"
It depends on what you upgraded from. If it was a 5400RPM/512k/ATA66 HDD then you would notice a difference...but if it was a 7200RPM/8MB/ATA100 HDD, the difference would be minor if noticeable at all.
I'm not trying to discourage anyone from going with SATA or SATA2, but the truth is, the average data transfer rates are still well under 100MB/s.
"In actual use in modern personal computers both SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 1.5Gb/s hard disk drives run at non-burst speeds comparable to earlier IDE interfaces (under 50Mb/s). Since the theoretical burst speeds marketed by drive manufacturers are rarely achieved, a smaller power and interface cable plus the ability to hot-swap are the most practical SATA benefits to everyday computing."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA
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Ya I have the same question about changing the transfer speed on teh HDD. If u can change it to sata 150 im looking to buy same drive.
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