2006-08-24 08:58:54 · 3 answers · asked by rudedawg_030 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Yes, absolutely. You will have no problems using an SATA 300 drive on an SATA 150 port. All forms of SATA are backwards compatible.
I wouldn't worry about the speed either. Don't let the 300 speed rating fool you. It is talking about the bandwidth being wider on the channel to allow more traffic through at once. It's not really talking about the speed of data being transferred. Think of a single hard drive using SATA 150 as a car travelling down a 2-lane highway. SATA 300 is like widening it to 4 lanes, but keeping the speed limit the same. To one car, that's not going to make a difference -- to many, it will. You start to see the benefit when you have many drives in large arrays (RAID) sharing that bandwidth.
The average hard drive averages only 45-50MB/s transfer rates, and of course, SATA 150 provides up to 150MB/s. Therefore, one drive is going to perform well regardless if it's on SATA 150 or SATA 300...
2006-08-24 09:56:41 · answer #1 · answered by SirCharles 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am pretty sure you can, BUT you will not get the 300 performance. It will run at the 150- rate.
2006-08-24 09:02:15 · answer #2 · answered by HoodRat 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it will work, you may not get all the preformance you may or may not be looking for, there is a discussion on this on another website, click the link below to view.
2006-08-24 09:12:50 · answer #3 · answered by John 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋