Sata-150 help please

[stevie0573]

Hi all,
       Im wondering if anyone can help me on this, i have a Asus A8N-SLI SE motherboard and am thinking of getting a new hard drive (for when i move to vista) but looking around now where seems to stock the Sata-150 drives and if they do the price is so expensive. Im wondering if it is possible to use sataII drives with this motherboard or am i screwed (jeez less than a year on meh!!!!).

cheers and look forward to any advise

p.s i did ask this question on the asus forum (a** holes)

[Lance]

I believe that SATA II drives are backwards compatible. You will most likely find that there is a jumper (not of the woolly type ) on the back of the drive which will make it 'understand' that it is connected to a SATA-150 controller.

I reckon if you do a quick Google on SATA II backward compatibility it will confirm what I think.

Thanks
Lance

[Ray]

Hi Stevie,
I am currently using a Samsung Sata 300 drive with an Asus A8V deluxe m/Board with no problems, this board only supports sata 150 drives.

Normally Sata 300 drives should automatically adjust to the lower speed which mine did, and if they don't they are usually supplied with a jumper that forces them to run as a Sata 150 drive, Samsung certainly are.

[siege2]

I have an old 150 gb sata HD that I input / output 2
Its not 100% plugged in, its just for plug in then backup etc then unplug

[stevie0573]

Cheers guys for that, it makes sence now why they are probably not selling many sata 150s if u can use sataII in their place.

What are the samsung hd's like ive seen the spinpoints have good reviews (god that means i will have to move away from seagate)

[siege2]

Hi stevie

very good talk forum; 
goto www.overclockers.co.uk CLICK onto the forums link

[jackmalanak]

stevie0573 wrote

What are the samsung hd's like ive seen the spinpoints have good reviews (god that means i will have to move away from seagate)

They are nice quiet drives stevie there's no doubt about that. I've installed 2 or 3 in machines over the last couple of months BUT why move away from Seagate, the latest 7200.10 Series are superb drives and a 5 Year Warranty to go with them

[Odos]

Hi Stevie, I believe the A8N-SLI SE is a SATA II controller anyway. I'm running an A8N-SLI Premium and I believe the only difference between the two boards is the fact that the premium has an extra controller to allow 8 drives instead of just 4.

As far as I'm aware the SE has the Nvidia controller which is SATA II so you should be able to run either type of drive no problem. I'm running a mix of the two types at the moment.

cheers

[stevie0573]

Cheers again guys, sound advice as per

Ive used seagate barracuda's for about 5years or so now and havent had to many problems (although world of warcraft doesnt like them). Im just wondering what other drives are like really.

[stevie0573]

Hi Stevie, I believe the A8N-SLI SE is a SATA II controller anyway. I'm running an A8N-SLI Premium and I believe the only difference between the two boards is the fact that the premium has an extra controller to allow 8 drives instead of just 4.

As far as I'm aware the SE has the Nvidia controller which is SATA II so you should be able to run either type of drive no problem. I'm running a mix of the two types at the moment.

cheers

Thats interesting, i cant find anything in the manual about it using sataII does anyone know how else this could be confirmed??? pretty please.

[siege2]

Yes 

http://uk.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=148&model=789&modelmenu=1

also manual PDF

http://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket939/A8N-SLI%20SE/e2252_A8N-SLI_SE.pdf

[stevie0573]

Sorry am i being stupid or summit, i see where it says about sata but not sata II.

forgive me if im having a dump ass day

[Ray]

Sata 3Gb/s is Sata II

Sata 1 is 1.5Gb/s

[stevie0573]

Ok im off now to bang my head on the wall ...................... *ouchy*

[siege2]

DOH!