SATA II Harddisks ?

[Skybuck Flying]

Hi,

Can SATA II harddisks be used with SATA I motherboards ?

In otherwords are SATA II harddisk backwards compatible with just SATA ?

Does this motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe support SATA II harddisks ?

Would I need an extra controller to connect the harddisks or do I simply
connect them
directly to the motherboard ?

It seems this motherboard can support 8 harddisks ???

What kind of casing is needed for that ??

Bye,
Skybuck.

 

[Christo]

Hi,

Can SATA II harddisks be used with SATA I motherboards ?

In otherwords are SATA II harddisk backwards compatible with just SATA ?

Does this motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe support SATA II harddisks ?

Would I need an extra controller to connect the harddisks or do I simply
connect them
directly to the motherboard ?

It seems this motherboard can support 8 harddisks ???

What kind of casing is needed for that ??

Bye,
Skybuck.

SATA-II hard drives CAN be plugged into older SATA slots, they obviously
wont go at the 3 Gbps of SATA II

there are IDE controllers on all boards for the CD-ROM drives

there are 4 SATA connectors on your board, this means you can have 4 SATA
hard drives (or SATA II)

you could stick 4 hard drives on the two IDE channels

you might want to keep one channel for cd-rom and dvd though

so you could have 8 hard drives if you used all of the possible connectors,
but 6 if you used one IDE channel for optical drives.

if you want to use RAID it doesn't change anything, still 4 SATA hard drives
or SATA II hard drives and setup a RAID amongst them

hope this helps

Christo

 

[Skybuck Flying]

SATA-II hard drives CAN be plugged into older SATA slots, they obviously
wont go at the 3 Gbps of SATA II

there are IDE controllers on all boards for the CD-ROM drives

there are 4 SATA connectors on your board, this means you can have 4 SATA
hard drives (or SATA II)

you could stick 4 hard drives on the two IDE channels

you might want to keep one channel for cd-rom and dvd though

so you could have 8 hard drives if you used all of the possible connectors,
but 6 if you used one IDE channel for optical drives.

if you want to use RAID it doesn't change anything, still 4 SATA hard drives
or SATA II hard drives and setup a RAID amongst them

Hmm I have a good question

Is it possible to use the 4 raid connectors and the 4 sata connectors at the
same time ?

If (probably) not, then the question is why not ?

If it was possible that would mean 4 drives for raid plus 4 sata drives plus
4 ide drivers... 12 drives seems a bit too much hehehehe.

(not to mention possible expansion cards and maybe even sata cables which
could connect two drives like ide ??? )

Bye,
Skybuck.

 

[Ron Reaugh]

SATA-II hard drives CAN be plugged into older SATA slots, they obviously
wont go at the 3 Gbps of SATA II

Obviously SATA II HDs wont go to 3 Gbps either except in very brief
non-sustained bursts.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

SATA-II hard drives CAN be plugged into older SATA slots,

they obviously wont go at the 3 Gbps of SATA II

"They obviously won't go at the 3 Gbps of SATA II" either, if they are just plain 1.5Gb/s SATA-2 drives.