SataII question

[dornick]

Will SATAII drives work on a motherboard that only supports the 150Mb/s version? All the plugs fit but Windows hasn't recognized it

 

[ProviaFan]

I see no reason why it shouldn't work... If the drive is new and hasn't been formatted yet, that explains why Windows doesn't see it. As Administrator, right click on My Computer, click on Manage, and go down to the Disk Management. From there, you may get a convenient wizard, or you may just need to find the new drive in the list below, right click on it, and go from there (after initialization, you'll need to partition it and format the partition(s)).

 

[knothead34]

i believe they are backwards compatible. im sorry im just guessing though.

 

[Penth]

SATA II is backwards compatible and you should see no speed difference as current drives don't even come close to saturating the 150MB/s bandwidth that SATA I offers. You may be out on features like NCQ if the drive offers it, but that shouldn't affect much for desktop performance.

 

[dornick]

Thanks, ProviaFan, that did the trick