sata and sata 2 help

hello all,

i want to get a new hard drive as my 2 ide ones are getting full, but as my motherboard suports sata i was going to go with one of them.

so off i go to look on ebay for one, but most of them seam to be sata2 and i am not sure if my motherboard suports it. on the manufactures website it says the following ....

motherboard is a asus K8N-E Deluxe

Sorage/RAID

Chipset:
‧2 x UltraDMA 133/100/66/33
‧2 x Serial ATA, support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, JBOD
Silicon Image Sil 3114 SATA controller:
‧4 x Serial ATA
‧RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5, JBOD

so basicly can i buy a sata2 hardrive? or do i have to stick to sata?????

thanks for your help i know u wont let me down!!!!!

 

i have been doing some research and i was just wondering if i would be corect in saying that sata 2 is just a faster version theirfore i can just change the speed using jumpers?????

or something like that???

cheers

 

SATA 2 HDD is backwards Compatitable. ( buy it )
If your mobo only supports SATA 1, no problem an SATA 2 HDD will still work it will just run at SATA 1 speeds.

Depending on the brand it may have a jumper to set it to SATA1 or 2 speeds

 

nice one cheers!!!!