1.5 to a 3.0 board?

Jaswahhihi · 05-27-2007, 06:48 AM

Ive ordered a Asus P5N-E board from ebuyer.co.uk but im unsure now if I need a new hard-drive.

Apparently these boards have SATA 3.0Gb/s connectors, but my old hard drive (which I want to use) is only 1.5Gb/s. Can I just plug it in to the P5N-E and will it recognise it?

(My hard drive is a Western Digital WD3200JD)

Im very confused

**Aus_Karlos** · 05-27-2007, 07:06 AM

Its compatible.. All the SATA plugs are the same you can have a 3.0gb/s HDD connected to a 1.5gb/s motherboard... The HDD would just run at a slower speed.

**linderman** · 05-27-2007, 07:45 AM

post above is 100% correct your existing hard drive would be compatible

in asmuch as no hard drive on the planet has yet to achieve over 90mb/s there is no spped loss with the 150mb /s drive vs the 300 mb/s

its all a theorical speed capability / not an actual

you would need to raid four hard drives together to break 100mb/s in a sustained read & write !!

**Aus_Karlos** · 05-27-2007, 07:49 AM

The fastest transfer speed ive achieved between 2 SATA drives not in RAID was 108mb/s with a 5bgb file

Jaswahhihi · 05-27-2007, 07:57 AM

Good to hear,

Cheers for the quick replys

05-27-2007, 06:48 AM	#1 (permalink)
Jaswahhihi Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 34 OS: Windows Vista Premium 32bit	1.5 to a 3.0 board? Ive ordered a Asus P5N-E board from ebuyer.co.uk but im unsure now if I need a new hard-drive. Apparently these boards have SATA 3.0Gb/s connectors, but my old hard drive (which I want to use) is only 1.5Gb/s. Can I just plug it in to the P5N-E and will it recognise it? (My hard drive is a Western Digital WD3200JD) Im very confused

05-27-2007, 07:06 AM	#2 (permalink)
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05-27-2007, 07:45 AM	#3 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,402 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Re: 1.5 to a 3.0 board? post above is 100% correct your existing hard drive would be compatible in asmuch as no hard drive on the planet has yet to achieve over 90mb/s there is no spped loss with the 150mb /s drive vs the 300 mb/s its all a theorical speed capability / not an actual you would need to raid four hard drives together to break 100mb/s in a sustained read & write !! __________________ Even a Broken Clock is Right Twice a Day ! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

05-27-2007, 07:49 AM	#4 (permalink)
Aus_Karlos Moderator, Games Team Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Western Australia Posts: 3,391 OS: Vista Ultimate x64, Windows XP 32-bit/64-bit, Ubuntu x64, Windows 7 x64 Beta My System Blog Entries: 2	Re: 1.5 to a 3.0 board? The fastest transfer speed ive achieved between 2 SATA drives not in RAID was 108mb/s with a 5bgb file __________________ MemTest86 / Nvidia Drivers / ATI Drivers / DirectX 9.0c / Sys Requirements / Everest Folding@Home

05-27-2007, 07:57 AM	#5 (permalink)
Jaswahhihi Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 34 OS: Windows Vista Premium 32bit	Re: 1.5 to a 3.0 board? Good to hear, Cheers for the quick replys