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I currently have a 200gb sata hard drive and a 120gb external usb hard drive, and yet i still need more storage space

i've been looking on overclockers.co.uk and all the disks on their seem to be SATA-II

will this still be able to connect to the same connectors?

am i being dim and in actual fact the disk i already have is SATA-II as well?

you'll be fine. sata1 and sata2 are backwards compatible

coolio

i was having a think about my upgrading dilemma, and to be honest if i upgrade my gfx and get a bigger HDD i won't really NEED to upgrade for quite a while


EDIT: I assume i can just connect the new disk up to the other SATA connector on my MOBO.

Do i need to go into BIOS before hand and make sure the original disk is set as master and tehn set the new one as slave when i have installed it?

mmm, overclockers have a 500gb seagate disk for under 100 notes

The Incredible... wrote:EDIT: I assume i can just connect the new disk up to the other SATA connector on my MOBO.

Correct.

The Incredible... wrote:Do i need to go into BIOS before hand and make sure the original disk is set as master and tehn set the new one as slave when i have installed it?

nope, there's no master and slave as such on sata, but you may need to change to boot order in the bios. basically if windows doesn't load, check the boot order.

thank you

although i know i'm gonna get the graphics card and hard disk, isntall them and then my computers going to go caput (SP?) just when i really need to start doing coursework

i know there shouldn't be any problem, but it would be just my luck

I thought you better know, that there is actually no benefit of using SATA II enabled drives, mainly because SATA II drives don't exist. Those claiming to be SATA II only have the bandwidth ability for 3GB/s, but they cannot use anywhere near this much because the drive mechanics themselves prevent it reading or writing at this speed. Therefore, SATA II is currently a sham, and needs improved technology before it becomes properly implemented. There is very little or no difference between SATA and SATA II.

Berk please correct me if I am wrong.

Basically that.

but for the sake of this, is sata2 was to exist, it'd work fine.

Yeah the whole SATA-II thing is a misnomer. The correct term is something like SATA 3Gbps. I gave up trying to remember the right name for it a while ago.

deject wrote:Yeah the whole SATA-II thing is a misnomer. The correct term is something like SATA 3Gbps. I gave up trying to remember the right name for it a while ago.

Yup

For future reference SATA almost has a modular naming system.

SATA | Speed (either 1.5 or 3) | NCQ/eSATA/Hot plug Etc. etc. (kinda optional bits)

All depends on the use and the item in question.

also remember that SATA only supports hotplugging on SATA power cables (few SATA drives support molex power now anyway) unless you're using very fancy hardware.