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SATAII and M1710

post #1 of 9
10/19/07 at 5:39am
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can M1710 handle SATAII drive ??
i want to buy SEGATE ST9200420ASG
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post #2 of 9
10/19/07 at 5:59am
Yeah, it'll handle it fine...

My "Beast" M1710 (see sig) has a Hitachi SATA-3G drive in it, and it works perfectly.
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post #3 of 9
10/19/07 at 9:26am
yeppers it will work just fine, though you will not have the NCQ functionality because if the IDE emulation.
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post #4 of 9
10/20/07 at 2:04pm
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Originally Posted by SolApathy View Post
yeppers it will work just fine, though you will not have the NCQ functionality because if the IDE emulation.
Please explain? I seem to have NCQ enabled on my M1710, and I only have a 1.5Gbps drive.
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post #5 of 9
10/20/07 at 2:10pm
you need to be in AHCI mode to actually use NCQ. The 1710 ( like other laptops before SA) uses IDE emulation. The drive is capable of NCQ, but unless it is in a system that supports ACHI it will not be avilable.
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post #6 of 9
10/20/07 at 2:16pm
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Originally Posted by SolApathy View Post
you need to be in AHCI mode to actually use NCQ. The 1710 ( like other laptops before SA) uses IDE emulation. The drive is capable of NCQ, but unless it is in a system that supports ACHI it will not be avilable.
Yep, a quick look in Everest Ultimate Edition shows that the drive is capable of NCQ, but is disabled.
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post #7 of 9
10/20/07 at 2:42pm
Well, my Linux says NCQ is supported *and enabled*.
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post #8 of 9
10/20/07 at 3:31pm
Well, I've been trying to read up on this, and it does seem SolApathy is right (which I always suspected but couldn't find proof of).

Sol, I'm still interested in documentation about the M1710+AHCI connection.

In any case, I'd say a SATAII drive is overkill at this point, as you won't even be able to saturate a SATAI link using the drive. But luckily, SATA II is backwards compatible.
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post #9 of 9
10/20/07 at 4:23pm
It's not just the M1710, it's any machine that does not have the AHCI. The hardware takes the SATA interface & emulates an IDE interface. I have AHCI on my desktop. To tell you the truth I don't notice a difference.
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