USMC2Hard4U
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When will SATA-II become available for us to buy? I know it is in the process of being designed and tested... anyone have any info or good links to share? Thanks.
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Bullitt said:They dont have any different connectors. Its sorta like udma 2 vs udma 4, they use the same connection, just work a tad faster.
I have the seagate 160gb sata-2 drive working on my sata-1 controllers, and they perform flawlessly.
I dont get any benefits of sata2 because my controller is the limiting feature on my rig.
Actually, you can connect SATA and SATA-II drives up to SAS controllers and expanders without any problems. SATA II adds NCQ, doubles the physical transmission rate, and allows for port multipliers, which will allow you to run up to 15 SATA II devices off of a single controller port.doormat said:Yea, you should be able to hook up SATA-II drives to SAS controllers I believe. Ice Czar clarified it in a thread where I asked the same question months ago.. let me dig it up...
UICompE02 said:Actually, you can connect SATA and SATA-II drives up to SAS controllers and expanders without any problems. SATA II adds NCQ, doubles the physical transmission rate, and allows for port multipliers, which will allow you to run up to 15 SATA II devices off of a single controller port.
SAS controllers?USMC2Hard4U said:Awesome... when will this become available to purchase on Motherboards and or PCI Express Cards? Any estimate?