SATA 1.5 instead of 3.0

memory · 09-11-2007, 02:13 AM

I am planning on building my own system shortly. I have a post on here about it. Anyways, I plan on using the hard drive that I use right now since I have two of them. Since they are just regular SATA 1.5, will this work with this board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813188013

Is SATA 3.0 backwards compatible with 1.5? I hope I don't have to buy a new hard drive.

What about optical drives? I plan on using the one I am using right now but I don't think it is SATA.

[-0MEGA-] · 09-11-2007, 03:27 AM

Yes you can use a SATAII drive on a motherboard with a SATA controller.

memory · 09-13-2007, 02:56 AM

What about using SATA drive on a board that has SATAII controller? The speed will only be 1.5mbps instead of 3.0 correct?

What about using SATA and SATAII on the same board? Will that be a problem? I would like to have 2 hard drives but don't want to buy 2 of them. I'm hoping I can use the one I have now(SATA) and buy a new hard drive(SATAII) for backup and secondary storage.

StrangleHold · 09-13-2007, 03:13 AM

Yea 99% of the time it will be fine, Western Digital drives have a jumper on there 3.0 drives that set them to 1.5, second set of jumpers from the left.

[-0MEGA-] · 09-13-2007, 03:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by memory

What about using SATA drive on a board that has SATAII controller? The speed will only be 1.5mbps instead of 3.0 correct?

What about using SATA and SATAII on the same board? Will that be a problem? I would like to have 2 hard drives but don't want to buy 2 of them. I'm hoping I can use the one I have now(SATA) and buy a new hard drive(SATAII) for backup and secondary storage.

lol, if it was only 1.5mbps then the transfer rate would be a max of 192KB/s

But yes you can use a SATA 150 drive with a SATA 3.0 controller.

meanman · 09-13-2007, 07:31 AM

my abit mobo will not recognize a sata11 hdd unless i move the jumper on the back too sata1 so make sure there is a jumper on the back some oem drives come without a jumper.

09-11-2007, 02:13 AM	#1 (permalink)
memory Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Southern Indiana Posts: 399	SATA 1.5 instead of 3.0 I am planning on building my own system shortly. I have a post on here about it. Anyways, I plan on using the hard drive that I use right now since I have two of them. Since they are just regular SATA 1.5, will this work with this board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813188013 Is SATA 3.0 backwards compatible with 1.5? I hope I don't have to buy a new hard drive. What about optical drives? I plan on using the one I am using right now but I don't think it is SATA. __________________ New rig soon to be built: Thermaltake Armor Series VA8000BWS\|Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L \| EVGA 8800GTS(G92) 512mb \| OCZ Gold 4gb DDR2 800 \| OCZ GameXStream 700 watt \| WD 250gb SATA 3.0 \| Samsung 20x dvd burner with lightscribe \| Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit \| 19 inch widescreen Hanns G monitor Old rig for sell: Dell Dimension 9100 Pentium D 820/ Corsair 2gb of ram/Pny Geforce 6800GS OC/2 dvd burners/Maxtor 250gb HDD/WD 120gb HDD/Soundblaster Audigy 4

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09-13-2007, 02:56 AM	#3 (permalink)
memory Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Southern Indiana Posts: 399	What about using SATA drive on a board that has SATAII controller? The speed will only be 1.5mbps instead of 3.0 correct? What about using SATA and SATAII on the same board? Will that be a problem? I would like to have 2 hard drives but don't want to buy 2 of them. I'm hoping I can use the one I have now(SATA) and buy a new hard drive(SATAII) for backup and secondary storage. __________________ New rig soon to be built: Thermaltake Armor Series VA8000BWS\|Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L \| EVGA 8800GTS(G92) 512mb \| OCZ Gold 4gb DDR2 800 \| OCZ GameXStream 700 watt \| WD 250gb SATA 3.0 \| Samsung 20x dvd burner with lightscribe \| Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit \| 19 inch widescreen Hanns G monitor Old rig for sell: Dell Dimension 9100 Pentium D 820/ Corsair 2gb of ram/Pny Geforce 6800GS OC/2 dvd burners/Maxtor 250gb HDD/WD 120gb HDD/Soundblaster Audigy 4

09-13-2007, 03:13 AM	#4 (permalink)
StrangleHold Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In a realm of unknown Wonders Posts: 7,522	Yea 99% of the time it will be fine, Western Digital drives have a jumper on there 3.0 drives that set them to 1.5, second set of jumpers from the left. __________________ NZXT Apollo Athlon 64 X2 5600-3.3ghz. Gigabyte GA MA770 DS3 G Skill DDR2 1066-944mhz. 4gbs. PNY 8800GT/VD964 Cooler W/D Sata 3.0 500gb RE2 Humans are curious creatures and by nature insane. Lock us all in a room together and within hours we're dividing into groups, creating Gods and plotting on how to kill one another.

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09-13-2007, 07:31 AM	#6 (permalink)
meanman Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: england Posts: 1,789	my abit mobo will not recognize a sata11 hdd unless i move the jumper on the back too sata1 so make sure there is a jumper on the back some oem drives come without a jumper.

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