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06-25-2006, 01:27 PM
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HD and MOBO
im planning on building a new computer, but i am confused about how to pick a harddrive that is compatible with my mobo. first off, if a board says it has "2x ATA100" does that mean it will work with a harddrive with an IDE Ultra ATA100 interface? and what is all this raid stuff, raid 0/1/0+1? i just need some guidance here...
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06-25-2006, 01:29 PM
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If your board supports SATA, get a SATA hard drive. RAID is a way to use multiple hard drives for various purposes. What mobo are you looking at?
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06-25-2006, 01:56 PM
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the asus A8N5X and the A8N-E. the 5x has sata 1.5gb and the E has 3gb, so im prolly gonna go with the A8N-E.
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06-25-2006, 03:02 PM
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You will never notice the speed difference between SATA I and SATA II.
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06-25-2006, 08:38 PM
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will a harddrive that has an interface of sata 3gb/s just plug right into a board with a 1.5gb/s interface?
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06-25-2006, 09:14 PM
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Yes it will, it will just transfer data at the maximum speed of 1.5 GB/s. However, it's not likely that that speed will ever be reached, which is why both SATA I and SATA II are more or less the same.
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06-26-2006, 01:34 PM
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now is there a big difference between the nforce4 and the nforce4 ultra chipset? what are the real gains with the ultra?
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