3Gb/s work with a 1.5Gb/s connector?

Rambo

Rambo

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Hey all...

Quick question:

Will a HDD with a spec of 3.0Gb/s work on a motherboard which only goes up to 1.5Gb/s?

I know I should know it, but I don't :o
 
Bump... Pretty urgent, it is depending upon a computer sale. If someone could answer, it'd be good :)
 
SataII throughput is 300 MB/s. SataI is half that. Hard drive speeds are usually measured in MB not Mb, although when you talk about network connections and the internet it's almost exclusively Mb.
 
Ok, thanks for the answer guys (sheesh... didn't expect to come back and see it reach 2 pages long! :P).

One more question: I've always known that MB and Mb are different, and that one is Megabyte, and one is Megabit (I think), but I don't actually know why they are different...
 
A small b in computing always means bit, and bit is shorthand for Binary Digit, and is basically the smallest size of information in a pc - a 1 or 0.

A byte (always a big B) is basically equal to 8 bits, and I think one byte is the smallest size of data on which a computation can be made, although I can't be sure of that.
 
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