Path: ...!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!i4g2000pro.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "larry moe 'n curly" Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Subject: Re: SATA 2.0 backward compatibility? Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:59:24 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 28 Message-ID: <7bc6a446-ff42-4d58-8e71-12d9ccab3d62@i4g2000pro.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.171.61.159 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1300561166 12645 127.0.0.1 (19 Mar 2011 18:59:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:59:26 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i4g2000pro.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.171.61.159; posting-account=nwMT4wkAAADJGK-3le1OljJcA4_llMcC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) N.Morrow wrote: > > I have a 4 year old HP DV1738 laptop and I would like to install a larger > hard drive in it. The current drive is a Fujitsu MHV2100BH, 100GB, SATA 1.0, > 1.5Gb/s. The majority of SATA drives available now are SATA 2.0 with 3Gb/s > transfer speed. I can't seem to find any information on the backward > compatibility of SATA 2.0 drives. I think that some drives have a jumper to > restrict transfer speed to 1.5Gb/s but I'm not seeing that on all of them. > It would be nice to be able to use a SATA 2.0 drive because of the selection > available and low prices. > > So, has anyone had success in replacing a SATA 1.0 drive with a SATA 2.0 > drive? I don't have one, but if it uses an Intel chipset, and I'm pretty sure it does, it will handle SATA 3Gb/s drives fine. This is the case with my Dell Pentium 4 Optiplex GX270 desktop, which is based on an older Intel chipset. AFAIK, only older SiS and VIA chipsets (VIA VT6420, VT8237, VT8237R, VT8237R+, VT8237A, but VT8237S and VT6421A are OK) can't handle SATA 3Gb/s drives. Seagate drives can be configured for 1.5Gb/s or 3.0Gb/s maximum speed with a jumper, as can Western Digital desktop drives but not WD notebook drives (WD notebooks can't be changed), while Hitachi and Samsung drives require running a program to change their speed limits.