Chaps,
I'm about to put in a RAID setup to install Vista Ultimate.
I'm thinking of 2 x 500MB Samsung Spinpoint T running mirrored.
Thing is they're SATA 2. I know I have SATA, but have no idea whether it's 1 or 2. How can I tell?
Cheers.
Chaps,
I'm about to put in a RAID setup to install Vista Ultimate.
I'm thinking of 2 x 500MB Samsung Spinpoint T running mirrored.
Thing is they're SATA 2. I know I have SATA, but have no idea whether it's 1 or 2. How can I tell?
Cheers.
Chaps,
Posted here after looking for answers elsewhere.
Don't bother answering - I've just found the impostant bit:
SATA 2 is backwards compatible to SATA 1, so even if my system isn't 2, I'm OK.
OK - won't bother to say that some drives have a jumper to force the drive into SATA1 mode which some older mobos require before the drives will work properly.
It doesn't matter, hard drives didn't even push the ATA-6 interface much less SATA, nevermind SATAII.
In future reference, if you want to know what interface your motherboard uses, open your motherboard manual *gasp*horror* yes, and read, if it doesn't explicitly say, take the model of the interface chip, and google.
As pre-built goes, Evesham are pretty good.
And I got a death machine for a pocket full of spare change.
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