Hello All,
Pretty much as the title says really. I've currently got 2 IDE drives but need more storage, so though that I might go for a SATA drive, as I've seen many on offer. Just have a few questions before I commit though...
1) My mobo - Asrock Dual Sata2 apparently has 2 SATA ports and one SATAII port. When I see drives I see SATA150 and SATA300. Do these mean SATA/SATAII?
2) Are the SATA300 drives backward compatible - ie. Can I plug one into a standard SATA port (Hypothetically, if i wanted to get lots of drives)
3) I dont have any SATA cables so I will have to get some but I was wondering how the Master/Slave setup works? Can you only have one device per SATA port? Or is it 2 like IDE?
4) Lastly, are there actually any real-life improvements from moving to SATA from IDE? or are they just theoretical?
Thanks for any help that you could give me. I keep seeing several 500GB drives which look really tempting!!!
JP