SATA terminology

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Are the terms SATA II, SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 300 synonymous?
If I install a HDD with one of these designations on an Intel
D945PSLKR MoBo (BIOS Intel Corp.
SN94510J,86A.0096.2006.0822.1131,8/22/2006) should I set the SATA mode
in the BIOS to AHCI?
The options are: IDE, AHCI and RAID; I will not be using a RAID
configuration.

TIA,
JDShine
 
JDShine said:
Are the terms SATA II, SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 300 synonymous?
If I install a HDD with one of these designations on an Intel
D945PSLKR MoBo (BIOS Intel Corp.
SN94510J,86A.0096.2006.0822.1131,8/22/2006) should I set the SATA mode
in the BIOS to AHCI?
The options are: IDE, AHCI and RAID; I will not be using a RAID
configuration.

TIA,
JDShine
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More or less. Don't believe the 300MB per second though. It's horse
pucky. It's not even 100MB/second. Maybe 80 or 90 MB, tops.

3gigabits/ second is the max speed of the INTERFACE, not the max speed
the hard drive can actually deliver.
 
Are the terms SATA II, SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 300 synonymous?
If I install a HDD with one of these designations on an Intel D945PSLKR
MoBo (BIOS Intel Corp. SN94510J,86A.0096.2006.0822.1131,8/22/2006)
should I set the SATA mode in the BIOS to AHCI?
The options are: IDE, AHCI and RAID; I will not be using a RAID
configuration.

TIA,
JDShine
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Thank you both for your replies.

JDShine
 
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