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?