OT: Will SATA2 hard drives work on a SATA 1 controller?

[Angry American]

Yes, jut not at 300Gps Speeds.

Dan

 

[Jesys]

TIA

 

[Bill]

TIA

Mine do.

Bill

 

[Jesys]

Mine do.

Bill

Thanks guys, I figure I might as well get a SATA2 drive now since my
next mobo will no doubt support it. ;-)

 

[Bill]

Thanks guys, I figure I might as well get a SATA2 drive now since my
next mobo will no doubt support it. ;-)

Make sure you jumper the hds for SATA1 operation.

Bill

 

[Jesys]

Make sure you jumper the hds for SATA1 operation.

Bill

Oh thanks, I did not know about the existance of such a jumper.
I haven't actually bought the drive yet as I was investigating
possiblity of offloading an old SATA 1 drive for a bigger SATA2
Western Digital.

 

[Bill]

Oh thanks, I did not know about the existance of such a jumper.
I haven't actually bought the drive yet as I was investigating
possiblity of offloading an old SATA 1 drive for a bigger SATA2
Western Digital.

Neither did I until looked it up on the WD HD website. That's one of
the drawbacks to buying OEM drives, no instructions.

OTOH, the two WD 250GB 16MB cache SATA2 drives jumpered to SATA1 in
Raid0 benchmarked at 111MBs with no data on them using Sandra.

Not the fastest, but not shabby either.

Bill

 

[Anthony Horan]

Neither did I until looked it up on the WD HD website. That's one of
the drawbacks to buying OEM drives, no instructions.

The text "Jumpered pins 5 & 6 enable SATA 150MB/s only operation" on the
drive's label didn't give you a hint?

 

[Bill]

The text "Jumpered pins 5 & 6 enable SATA 150MB/s only operation" on the
drive's label didn't give you a hint?

Nope. Didn't have the 'read the little itty bitty print' glasses on at
the time.

Bill