help me verify that my motherboard supports sata II?

Question

i have this motherboard made by intel DG965WH
and one of the main reasons i bought it was because i thought the motherboard supported sata II. it has 6 sata ports but it doesnt specifically say anywhere on the intel site that it is 6 sata II ports. can anyone help me verify that indeed these are sata II ports. i plan on using esata drives with sata II hard drives and i can't get sata II speeds if the motherboard doesn't support it. please help.

this says it does have sata II
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/Desktops/Complete-Systems/auction-83492379.htm

but the intel web site doesn't really say anything about sata II on this MB.

Answer 1

Here is the link to the Intel page on the board:http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/reseller/asmo-na/eng/products/desktop/bdb/dg965wh/feature/index.htm if you will look next to storage it says "Six 3.0Gb/s SATA ports" which is SATA II. SATA II is in fact not even the offical name, it is supposed to be called SATA 3.0Gb/s, but it is widely referred to as SATA II. So yes, you do have what you want.

Answer 2

My guess is that since it does not specifically say SATA II that it does not support SATA II. Any technology pretty much works that way. When a new standard supersedes an existing standard, the older hardware documentation that supported the older standards is not revised to indicate that it does not support the new standard. So, the assumption has to be made that if the documentation does not specifically say that it supports an updated standard, then about 99.9% of the time, it does not support that standard.

Answer 3

SATA II is still pretty new, you really have to watch what you buy because a lot of the drives that claim SATA II don't actually perform at the 3.0Gbps transfer speeds that you are supposed to get from them, and others don't claim support for features we almost take for granted; like NCQ.

Answer 4

According to an article on Wikipedia, SATA is foward/backward compatible with itself, so you should still get your 3.0Gbit/s transfer rate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA

Answer 5

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