sata150

[merdat]

Been lookin at these WD Raptor drives and they are described as needing a SATA150 interface - What ist that???

[chuckskull]

Serial ATA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA

Set to replace plain old ATA in the near future.

[merdat]

Chuckscull

oh first of all thank you very much for the screen dump thing -very helpful and much appreciated. So looks like sata 150 is commonly known as sata1 or will work on a gid ds4 board which I have .

[merdat]

Chuckskull -sorry for mis -spell- been a long day

[chuckskull]

Yeah SATA often lots of silly names tacked on, but every SATA drive will work on your DS4.

[merdat]

This sata is all new to me . Used with Pata /Ide . Employed a caddy system with old computer ide set up . Atm don't have room to fit a multi sata caddy sys but am thinking of getting a couple of single caddy things till I get another case --don't have room in existing case for a stack of caddy things . Using sata single drive (none raid ) ATM . 250 unpartitioned which I am not happy about but new to complete c2D set-up. Got a c2d set -up but getting 'bairn 'to bring me back a amd 4600 chip from 'over the pond' so I can utilise my old ram 266 If it works M/B MSI k8N Neo 4 MS-7125 ver !.X. Must be a stange board as I posted in a couple of places and got no reply's

cheers Chuchskull.