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Will a SATA 3.0 HD work in my m1710?

post #1 of 4
9/19/08 at 3:06am
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Ran a couple quick Googles, found nothing. Is there any incompatibility? Will it work at a reduced speed? Will it work at full speed?
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post #2 of 4
9/19/08 at 4:36am
It'll work, yes. It won't be operating at 3.0 levels (like that'll make a difference) since the controller isn't native 3.0, but they're all backwards compatible.

As for your "reduced speed" question, no 300MB/sec SATA drive currently even comes *close* to reaching that outside of some pretty insane hardware RAID setups, so be happy with the occasional 90-110MB/sec reads - they'll be all you get from even the "latest" HD.
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post #3 of 4
9/19/08 at 12:37pm
yep it will be fine, as stated by destruya
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post #4 of 4
9/19/08 at 12:54pm
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Yeah, I had researched it a while ago when a customer asked me if 10,000rpm drives were faster than SATA2 drives for his desktop, and I came up with the same notion on data transfer rates; it's been a while though, and this was faster than researching... sorry, I'm lazy.

Thanks for the quick inputs!
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