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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: mars01 on February 05, 2004, 01:37:38 PM

Title: Maxtor 160gb Serial Ata 150 7200rpm 8mb 9.3ms Hard Drive (drive Only)
Post by: mars01 on February 05, 2004, 01:37:38 PM

I have a few questions,

What is the Serial ATA interface and do I need any special hardware etc to take advantage of it.  It seems there is a special power chord, but is that it.  Will I be able to use it in any pc?

Title: Maxtor 160gb Serial Ata 150 7200rpm 8mb 9.3ms Hard Drive (drive Only)
Post by: SlapShot on February 05, 2004, 01:44:49 PM

Ask Icer .. he knows all the stuff.

Title: Maxtor 160gb Serial Ata 150 7200rpm 8mb 9.3ms Hard Drive (drive Only)
Post by: mars01 on February 05, 2004, 01:48:48 PM

Nice thx man

Title: Maxtor 160gb Serial Ata 150 7200rpm 8mb 9.3ms Hard Drive (drive Only)
Post by: 1K0N on February 05, 2004, 03:56:25 PM

Yup...A Motherboard that has SATA connectors and the cables..
You can get a convertor so your non sata drives work with it but not much point..
ASUS latest have SATA

Title: Maxtor 160gb Serial Ata 150 7200rpm 8mb 9.3ms Hard Drive (drive Only)
Post by: mars01 on February 05, 2004, 04:00:20 PM

cool thanks ikon

Title: Maxtor 160gb Serial Ata 150 7200rpm 8mb 9.3ms Hard Drive (drive Only)
Post by: boxboy28 on February 05, 2004, 04:57:54 PM

Ya SATA is a special plug for both inter face and power! Some drives IE like mine a WD raptor 36G has both form of power and my MOBO supports SATA on board,   but you still need the data cable and either a MOBO that supports it, the adaptors for the IDE cables or a SATA PCI card!