I just bought a new Seagate SATA-II hard drive to add to my storage space. Right now it's recognized as a SATA-I HDD in BIOS, which leads to two questions. 1)Is it worth the effort to change it/is SATA-II that much faster, and 2)How would I fix it so it's recognized as SATA-II?
I have a suspicion it's the jumpers in back, but the way my drives are mounted in my case it would be a bitch to take it out just to change the jumper and find out that's not it. So what do I do, /comp/?
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Anonymous2006-12-15 17:21
>>1
1. Take it out.
2. Remove the jumper.
3. Change the voltage switch at the back of your computer.
4. Put the jumper back.
5. Put it in.
6. Turn your computer on.
7. ????
8. Profit.
>>5
Yes, but as far as I recall hard drives are still nowhere near as fast as SATA I. And isn't there other stuff like native command queuing, maybe that hybrid thing, blah blah blah? It's confusing.
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Anonymous2006-12-16 11:44
Fast SATA is fast... you don't need more
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Anonymous2006-12-16 14:28
>>6
7200RPM drives can't internally read and write fast enough to saturate a SATA I (aka SATA, SATA 150) connection. In fact, only the fastest, least fragmented 7200 RPM drives can even come close to needing SATA I over ATA 133 (though you'd see a difference between ATA 100 and ATA 133). SATA II is only useful for 10,000 and 15,000 RPM drives
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Anonymous2006-12-16 15:41
>>8
hi ihave a 100000rpm drive what do i use for speeed enough ;)?
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Anonymous2006-12-16 23:42
Sata III gonna have 6gb/s
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Anonymous2006-12-17 7:56
SATA II IS OVER NINE THOUSAND
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Anonymous2006-12-18 0:46
I dislike SATA because their little cables have no hold to them. Its like they can just fall the fuck out of the slot....
Maybe its just my equipment but I have heard of this complaint before.
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Anonymous2006-12-18 2:14
>>13
I believe a lot\all of new SATA equipment has a newer snap-lock plug. Might be wrong though.
They're certainly not tough motherfuckers like IDE ribbons. Those require the combined strength of a thousand men to remove sometimes.