Seagate SATA compatibility

Hello,

I currently have a 160 GB Seagate Barracuda SATA 7200rpm 8MB cache HDD with NCQ which runs off my ASUS A8V-E Deluxe Motherboard. Its about 1 yr old.

I then purchased what i thought was the same one but found out its SATA 2. Is this going to be a problem for me? I wasnt looking to raid the drives or anything. Hopefully they will just run like 2 hard disks.

According to Seagate, I can jumper the sata 2 to make it the same as sata 1,(guessing thats the backwards compatibility). But in all honesty when i spoke to them they just confused me a bit. I was also considering doing a fresh install on the sata2 and using the sata 1 as my extra space/backup drive. Is this wise?

If anybody could clarify the sata1 sata2 saga, then it would be appreciated.

OS is XP pro SP2

thankyou in advance

das chimp

 

You're in the clear.

the SATA2 drive would run in SATA/300 mode only if the motherboard supported SATA2. Otherwise, it should run just fine in SATA/150 mode. If for some reason it's not recognized because of a lack of SATA2 compatiblity, the Jumper would do the trick-- but my assumption is you wont even need to limit it manually.

Plug her in and give it a try, should work no problems.