SATA HDD's

My local computer store is having a sale and their selling SATA HDD's for only 29.99 (after instant rebate). The problem is though, my mobo has SATAII. Are SATA and SATA2 backwards compatible, can i just plug a sata I device into a sata 2 plug and go? I think someone answered this already but i cant find it.

 

yes should should work just fine

 

sweet!!! 200GB HDD HERE I COME! It doesnt matter whether i use a SATA or a SATA2 cable correct? or should i spend a few bucks on a SATA cable?

 

unsure hope someone else can add to this for you i would match cable to your boards connector

 

yup they are the same,you only run into difficulties when tryna attach a new sata 2 drive to an older sata one controller

 

Hows that? I mean, what kind of difficulties?

 

Cables make no differance.

SATA II drives are supposed to be completely backwards compatible, they should work fine with the older SATA controller.
When using SATA II on SATA controller there is no Benifit. (it will run at 1.5Gbs)

Here's review of three SATA II, Read the first page:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1828252,00.asp




I'm woundering about the difficulties Rikky referrs too??
Ive read of few problems but were related to firmware which seems to be sorted out now??

 

I have limited knowledge of the subject,I have yet to own one or get to play with one,my understanding from articles I'v read was that older sata controllers had difficulty detecting newer 2 sata drives it was only newer sata controllers that were fully backwards compatible with older sata drives

If they are both fully backwards compatible its all good I stand corrected

 

I believe Asus was referring to connecting to a "controller" and you have the connectors on your mobo, right SleepyGamer?

I bought my SATA drives a while back and, at that time, the drives did not come with the power or data cables. Be sure to check before you leave the store without them (like I did the first time... bleh).

Good luck!

 

sata 2 drives usually are set to sata mode and you have to unlock sata 2 capabilities with a floppy(just had to do that on a deskstar)once a sata2 drive is set for sata 2 it WILL NOT work on a sata but sata has no problems working on a sata2 controller. hope thats clear enough

 

Yay! i got the drive! Anyways, Ive got 2 HDDs now... a 40 Gb and my new 200GB.. anyways... How do i copy my C: Partition (on my Maxtor 40GB) to my new G: Partition (on my new 200GB hdd?)

NOTE : My C: Drive is my boot partition! (duh) and i want to get all that info onto my new G: Partition!

 

hd should have come with a disk to format and partition new drive . the program for that should also have a ghosting program that should ask if you want to make the new drive your new boot drive or additional storage. just pick boot drive and it should work all its own. if not norton ghost or another such program can handle the job. then under hard disk priority in bios (if you have this setting)select new drive and set it as #1 and it will become your new boot drive

 

Tried... I get an "Error Loading OS" message during bootup... Possibly because my new boot partition is not C:?