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  • jwmghf
    Gold Member
    Gold Member
    • Oct 2004
    • 134
    #1

    Which hard drives are compatible?

    Hey guys:


    I am running an Asus P4C800-E deluxe. The mobo supports 478 Intel chipset. I currently have two drives hooked up in a raid-0 configuration. One of the drives failed, so I am in the market for a couple of new ones.

    The drives I currently have are serial ata-150. Will the newer serial ata-300 drives be compatible with my system? And if so, will there be any speed advantage with them? Also, my drives currently are using an 8mb buffer as apposed to the 16mb buffer on the newer drives. Is there advantage here also or not??

    Thanks,

    jwmghf
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    Asus Rampage III Extreme, BIOS 1301, Chipset N/A, CPU Intel I7 980X,
    Memory OCZ OCZ3RPR1600LV12GK, Video Card Asus (ATI) EAH5970 (Core Clock 725MHz), SSD OCZ Revodrive SSD240, 2x WD RE4 2003FYYS, Optical Drives Pioneer BDR-206BK, Water Cooling CPU waterblock EK Supreme HF, EK Motherboard Waterblock EK-FB RE3, EK GPU EK-FC5970 Waterblock, Case Mountain Mods Extended Ascension, Operating System Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
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    • katzdvd
      Lord of Digital Video
      Lord of Digital Video
      • Feb 2006
      • 2198
      #2
      The drives I currently have are serial ata-150. Will the newer serial ata-300 drives be compatible with my system? And if so, will there be any speed advantage with them? Also, my drives currently are using an 8mb buffer as apposed to the 16mb buffer on the newer drives. Is there advantage here also or not??
      Seagate tells me they are backward compatible. I am running a similar setup. The drive will revert to the capability of the mobo; if your mobo is 150, that's what the drive will do. some drives have a jumper to set them to the mobo spec.

      If the prices are fairly comparable, I would opt for the fater drive; if you replace the mobo in the future, the drive may match it at that time.

      16MB better than 8 MB.

      regards, katz

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        • jm1647
          An Eagles Fan, A MenuShrinker
          • Apr 2005
          • 3661
          #3
          I just bought 2 400GB Seagate SATA II HDD with the 16MB buffer. They came with a jumper installed to slow them down to 150. I got them at frys.com for $99 each shipped and no tax in NJ

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            • katzdvd
              Lord of Digital Video
              Lord of Digital Video
              • Feb 2006
              • 2198
              #4
              I just bought 2 400GB Seagate SATA II HDD with the 16MB buffer. They came with a jumper installed to slow them down to 150. I got them at frys.com for $99 each
              That's an unbelievable price - can't beat that one! I paid that for a 250GB Seagate about 2 mo. ago.

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                • UncasMS
                  Super Moderator
                  • Nov 2001
                  • 9047
                  #5
                  most sata drives have that jumper for downward compatibility, which can be useful especially with nf4 boards

                  i had a couple of bsod until i slowed an sata-II drive down to sata-I

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                    • jm1647
                      An Eagles Fan, A MenuShrinker
                      • Apr 2005
                      • 3661
                      #6
                      Originally Posted by katzdvd
                      That's an unbelievable price - can't beat that one! I paid that for a 250GB Seagate about 2 mo. ago.
                      Yeah 1 was an opening day special and the other they repeated the sale like a week later I hadda get them at that price !!

                      Originally Posted by UncasMS
                      most sata drives have that jumper for downward compatibility, which can be useful especially with nf4 boards

                      i had a couple of bsod until i slowed an sata-II drive down to sata-I
                      I got one installed in my AMD 1500+, old ECS no SATA MOBO so I been using Maxtor SATA/150 PCI cards I got one of the MAxtor cards in my PIII also) to install extra SATA and PATA drives. I gotta get another power splitter to put the 2nd one in for a total of 6 (right now it has 5 HDD and 2 DVD devices in the 'ol AMD box

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                        • UncasMS
                          Super Moderator
                          • Nov 2001
                          • 9047
                          #7
                          sounds you're building a nice multimedia storage device, jm?

                          ^_~

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                            • jm1647
                              An Eagles Fan, A MenuShrinker
                              • Apr 2005
                              • 3661
                              #8
                              Originally Posted by UncasMS
                              sounds you're building a nice multimedia storage device, jm?

                              ^_~
                              I'm giving it a shot

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