SATA 1.5 gb/s or 3.0gb/sec? Will the drive even work???

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Looking at buying a drive that says it is 3.0 gb/sec, but I also see
some drives which are 1.5gb/sec.
My motherboard is ASUS AS8-X and all it says is SATA, it doesn't say
if it's the 1.5gb/sec or 3.0gb/sec?

Does anyone know or could you help me find out before I buy a drive
that won't work?

thanks
 
Bob said:
Looking at buying a drive that says it is 3.0 gb/sec, but I also see
some drives which are 1.5gb/sec.
My motherboard is ASUS AS8-X and all it says is SATA, it doesn't say
if it's the 1.5gb/sec or 3.0gb/sec?

Does anyone know or could you help me find out before I buy a drive
that won't work?

thanks
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A 3.0Gb/sec drive can run at 1.5Gb/sec. Some drives even have a jumper
option, for forcing one mode or the other.

http://www.seagate.com/images/support/en/us/cuda_sata_block.gif
http://www.seagate.com/images/support/en/us/mxo_sata_jumpers.gif (maxtor jumpers)

Paul
 
Looking at buying a drive that says it is 3.0 gb/sec, but I also see
some drives which are 1.5gb/sec.
My motherboard is ASUS AS8-X and all it says is SATA, it doesn't say
if it's the 1.5gb/sec or 3.0gb/sec?

Does anyone know or could you help me find out before I buy a drive
that won't work?

thanks
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Chcek to see what version of SATA the Motherboard works to, or how old
it is. The original spec operated at 1.5gig. So if your Mother board
pre-dates 2003 it may operate at 1.5g.

This page may help;
http://www.interfacebus.com/Design_Connector_Serial_ATA.html

Off the main page;
http://www.interfacebus.com/
 
Looking at buying a drive that says it is 3.0 gb/sec, but I also see
some drives which are 1.5gb/sec.
My motherboard is ASUS AS8-X and all it says is SATA, it doesn't say
if it's the 1.5gb/sec or 3.0gb/sec?

Does anyone know or could you help me find out before I buy a drive
that won't work?

thanks
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I'm not sure if your motherboard and my goode olde A7N8X Deluxe are
related in any way, but I just installed a new Samsung SATA 3 Gb/s
drive and it works fine even without setting the jumpers to 1.5 Gb/s.
Don't know what the actual transfer rate is though.
 
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