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[Chewy]

adding a sata 2 drive to your sata 2 capable mobo, do you need a sata 2 cable or will a regular sata cable do?

[NightTran]

I think if you use the regular sata cable it still work but when you transfer it alot slower, I would prefer sata 2 cable

I bought one from bestbuy regular sata cable with the 90 angle, and it was slowdown alot, now I just bend my old cable at 90 degree

[Chewy]

according to these guys

http://www.sata-io.org/3g.asp

No software, driver or cable upgrades required.

of course what in the heck do they know?

saw the same scam run by the industry with usb2 vs usb1

[NightTran]

sata only benefit if you use FFox for down loading

[Chewy]

how's that night? pata drives can keep up with 30-40 MB/s

[ed klein]

If your motherboard has SATA2 connections (4 signal leads per channel) then you are going to need the SATA2 cables (2 pair cables)

Now, mabe you can double up on the standard SATA cables (1 pair + 1 pair) and then they will work correctly.

So if you have the latest and greatest motherboard with at least two SATA2 connections and you have two identical hard drives connected in RAID 0 configuration you will need a total of 4 pair cables or 8 single leads.

Do the computer shops have in stock SATA2 cables?

[Chewy]

the connector and cables have the same number of wires/pins

The 0.5” wide cable connector directly connects the 4 signal wires and 3 ground lines to the receiving terminal in a
single row.

[ed klein]

7 leads per channel in one plastic straight connector-----Wow

I going to check my computer store to see if they plan to stock these SATA 2cables.

If the computers of the future are going to have two or more SATA 2 connections and the IDE cables are starting to become a thing of the past, I would think the computer stores are going to stock these 7 leads one connector cables.

I would think the motheboard makers would call them primary SATA 2 and secondary SATA 2. And the upper end motherboards would have the 3rd and 4th SATA 2 connections.

[Chewy]

the whole point of this thread is regarding cables there is no difference in
sata 1 and sata 2, just the same as usb 1 or 2, a good sata cable will do sata 2 just like a good usb1 cable will do usb2

also add cat5e will do gigabit ethernet

merchandisers would have you believe otherwise

smoke and mirrors

[NightTran]

how's that night? pata drives can keep up with 30-40 MB/s

when I down load with multi files in FF and left it for hours, it can go up to 100000kb/s or more at that instanst then it drop down slowly

[Chewy]

unless you have 2 raid stripes, you won't see any sustained 100MB/s

a 16 meg cache on a hard drive can only burst for a fraction of a second

[NightTran]

yes indeed , for FF I can down load Multi source for IE multi source will slowdown alot, sata 2 when transfer one file from one HD to another is faster then sata alone

[atifsh]

i changed my primary drive to sata2 no cable change, but it showed as 1.5 g transfer rate, i realized i havnt remove the jumper now it shows 3g transfer rate, on same cable.