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    It was a trap, after all. Member DukeofSerbia's Avatar
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    Thumbs up SATA II vs SATA I

    Quote Originally Posted by Husar
    A google search turned up that it seems to support SATA 150, so you can use SATA but no SATA2.
    He can use SATA II but it will work as SATA I. I attached Western Digital Cavier 250GB KS SATA II to my Gigabyte K8N (s.754). He works as SATA I but becuse higher cash than my old Western Digital Cavier 120 GB SATA I it is faster. Now I use them in software RAID 0. Very fast with large files.


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    If you have money buy Western Digital Cavier 250GB KS SATA II (7200 rpm, 16MB buffer). The best on market for home and small office usage.
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    Default Re: SATA II vs SATA I

    Quote Originally Posted by DukeofSerbia
    He can use SATA II but it will work as SATA I. I attached Western Digital Cavier 250GB KS SATA II to my Gigabyte K8N (s.754). He works as SATA I but becuse higher cash than my old Western Digital Cavier 120 GB SATA I it is faster. Now I use them in software RAID 0. Very fast with large files.
    You're right, I forgot it's completely downwards compatible.
    Do you think a new SATA HDD would be recognizably faster than my current 80GB ATA Maxtor HDD? It has UDMA 133 and 7200RPM, now I wonder whether a normal SATA drive would gain me anything(for example in games that reload often) or whether a Western Digital Raptor(SATA, 10000RPM, NCQ for the Raptor X) would be worth the price?


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    Default Re: SATA II vs SATA I

    Probably not much faster but it will be faster because of larger hard disk's cash and slightly faster interface.

    My new WD is some ~15-20% faster. Not much but it is because of larger cash and newer technology.

    It also depend on cheapset of motherboard and drivers. I have the latest unified drivers for nVidia nForce and they pretty improve works with disks.

    Don't waste money on Raptor if you don't need it.
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