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June 3rd 06, 03:53 PM
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SATA II drives on a SATA I interface?
I have a Dimension 8400 and need to purchase a new hard drive. SATA II is
out now and I'm wondering if a SATA II drive will work reliably on the SATA I interface that is in the Dimension 8400. I've read varying experiences via pages I found from Google. SATA I drives are still avaliable, but the pricing and size avaliability is nothing like that of the SATA II drives. Oh and all of my expansion slots are filled so I can't get a SATA II expansion card. Mike 
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June 3rd 06, 04:41 PM
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SATA II drives on a SATA I interface?
yes, the sata II drives works just fine on older sata controllers.
i have yet to see a problem. what concerns have you heard? M. Hale wrote: I have a Dimension 8400 and need to purchase a new hard drive. SATA II is out now and I'm wondering if a SATA II drive will work reliably on the SATA I interface that is in the Dimension 8400. I've read varying experiences via pages I found from Google. SATA I drives are still avaliable, but the pricing and size avaliability is nothing like that of the SATA II drives. Oh and all of my expansion slots are filled so I can't get a SATA II expansion card. Mike
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June 4th 06, 05:50 AM
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SATA II drives on a SATA I interface?
I have a Dell 8400 with both SATA 1 and 2 HDs. The SATA 2 drive is slightly
faster (HDTune) but maybe because it's newer. "Jay B" wrote in message ... yes, the sata II drives works just fine on older sata controllers. i have yet to see a problem. what concerns have you heard? M. Hale wrote: I have a Dimension 8400 and need to purchase a new hard drive. SATA II is out now and I'm wondering if a SATA II drive will work reliably on the SATA I interface that is in the Dimension 8400. I've read varying experiences via pages I found from Google. SATA I drives are still avaliable, but the pricing and size avaliability is nothing like that of the SATA II drives. Oh and all of my expansion slots are filled so I can't get a SATA II expansion card. Mike
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June 4th 06, 04:23 PM
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SATA II drives on a SATA I interface?
most sata II drives have larger buffer sizes, like 8mb or 16mb.
so make sure you consider that as well. that could be why the new one is faster. Brian K wrote: I have a Dell 8400 with both SATA 1 and 2 HDs. The SATA 2 drive is slightly faster (HDTune) but maybe because it's newer. "Jay B" wrote in message ... yes, the sata II drives works just fine on older sata controllers. i have yet to see a problem. what concerns have you heard? M. Hale wrote: I have a Dimension 8400 and need to purchase a new hard drive. SATA II is out now and I'm wondering if a SATA II drive will work reliably on the SATA I interface that is in the Dimension 8400. I've read varying experiences via pages I found from Google. SATA I drives are still avaliable, but the pricing and size avaliability is nothing like that of the SATA II drives. Oh and all of my expansion slots are filled so I can't get a SATA II expansion card. Mike
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June 5th 06, 02:29 AM
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SATA II drives on a SATA I interface?
Good point. The new SATA 2 has 16 MB buffer, the SATA 1 has 8 MB.
"Jay B" wrote in message ... most sata II drives have larger buffer sizes, like 8mb or 16mb. so make sure you consider that as well. that could be why the new one is faster.
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