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Finding a SATA 1.5 drive, I'm a moron

KyzenKyzen Registered User regular
edited January 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
Trying to find a SATA 1.5 drive for my file server. 2 questions:

1 - The motherboard on newegg lists the SATA ports as 1.5 Gb/s. While looking around newegg, they list SATA 3.0Gb/s drives as such. The only other SATA drives I see are labled Serial ATA150. Is it safe to assume that Serial ATA150 = SATA 1.5Gb/s ?

2 - Are SATA 3.0 Gb/s drives backwards compatable with 1.5 Gb/s? I ask this because the Serial ATA150 drive options are considerably crappier than the SATA 3.0 Gb/s options. Like, there's nothing under $100.

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  • CripTonicCripTonic Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    they're backwards compatible. Just buy any SATA drive and it will work.

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  • ZifnabZifnab Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    You may have to put a jumper on a SATA 3.0 drive to make it run at 1.5Gb/s, but that's not that big a deal. I have two drives running that way right now. And yes, Serial ATA150 is SATA 1.5Gb/s, as far as I know.

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  • JWFokkerJWFokker Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Yes to both, and the reason why SATA150 drives are more expensive, is that no one makes them anymore. It's all SATA300 now, so buy the best value you can find and be happy because you can just plug it in and it'll work regardless of your motherboard being SATA150 only.

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