can I run a 3.0mb/s hard drive on my 1.5mb/s MB?

BanditFTW · 01-20-2009, 01:16 AM

Hey guys, just wanted to get your opinion of something. I'm currently looking at buying a Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500AAKS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive. The motherboard in the machine it's for, is an asrock p4vm890, and it only supports sata hard drive interfaces up to 1.5mb/s. Can I still use the WD caviar? I'm thinking that it will come with a pin that limits the interface to 1.5mb/s until I remove it, is that the case? Thanks in advance for your time.

**Cromewell** · 01-20-2009, 01:21 AM

Even if it doesn't have a jumper to limit the speed it should still work. SATA3.0 and 1.5 are compatible with each other.

01-20-2009, 01:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
BanditFTW New Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1	can I run a 3.0mb/s hard drive on my 1.5mb/s MB? Hey guys, just wanted to get your opinion of something. I'm currently looking at buying a Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500AAKS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive. The motherboard in the machine it's for, is an asrock p4vm890, and it only supports sata hard drive interfaces up to 1.5mb/s. Can I still use the WD caviar? I'm thinking that it will come with a pin that limits the interface to 1.5mb/s until I remove it, is that the case? Thanks in advance for your time.

01-20-2009, 01:21 AM	#2 (permalink)
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