Brain Fart!

[AlienMenace]

Hello All,

Is a SATA 6gb backwards compatible to SATA 3gb (Hard Drive)? Or do I get just a SATA 3gb.

Putting a old system together for a friend that is on a set income. Can't afford anything new. Not in less he goes through Finger-hut to buy a overly priced computer.

This is what I have now:
AMD M3A78 AM2/AM2+ CPU Support up to 140W Motherboard.
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Quad Core CPU.
Arctic Freezer Heatsink/fan (older version).
4gb - Patriot DDR2 - 2 X 2GB - PDC24G5300LLK - 667 MHz.
600W PSU.
Mid Tower Case.

What it needs to finish out is the Hard Drive, DVD-burner and a cheap video card.

All he does is internet. Facebook and such. No hard core gaming.
I'm going to install Linux Mint 18.2 (Mate) on it.

Thank you

 

[_Kyle_]

Sata 6gb is backwards compatible, it just won't run at full speed.

 

[AlienMenace]

Thank you, my friend won't notice the difference anyway. He's working with a old xp Intel p4 right now with a IDE hard drive in it.

 

[beers]

Yeah they're all compatible with each other. On a mechanical drive you won't see any performance delta from SATA 3 Gbps to SATA 6 Gbps.

SATA "II" @ 3 Gbps introduced some technologies like NCQ that help a bit over SATA 1.5 Gbps, but it'd have to be a super old drive to not support that.

 

[Darren]

SATA 2 and 3 are functionally the same for mechanical hard drive as they won't ever saturate the bandwidth of 2 let alone 3. SSD's on the other hand...

 

[2048Megabytes]

Once you go with a solid state drive you never want to go back. I love how screaming fast they are. Windows 7 loads up in less than a minute.

 

[AlienMenace]

Once you go with a solid state drive you never want to go back. I love how screaming fast they are. Windows 7 loads up in less than a minute.

Well, my friend really doesn't know much about computers and no money for a SSD. That is why he's getting a 1tb regular drive.

Now me, I am going to replace my SSD in January from 128gb to a 275gb.