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Can you run a faster drive on a slower interface - in other words, will the interface on the drive take care of slowing down to the maximum rate supported by the drive controller?

2007-01-30 14:30:18 · 3 answers · asked by topbidder 1 in Computers & Internet Hardware Other - Hardware

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Yes it will work and it should work automatically. There is a jumper setting on the drive to slow it down, but that is only necessary on some VIA chipsets, otherwise it should work automatically.

2007-01-30 14:41:44 · answer #1 · answered by mysticman44 7 · 0 0

Yes it should work, and there shouldn't be any slowdown on the 1.5 Gbits/sec drive, it should at the maximum speed that HD was made to work. The fact that the interface is capable of 3 Gbits/sec doesn't means it will slow down a slower hard drive 1.5 Gbits/sec.

And lets not mix up the terms. It's 1.5 Gbits/sec, not 1.5 GBytes/sec, as well it is 3.0 Gbits/sec, not 3.0 GB/sec. - We are talking about speed, not capacity. :)

Also, those speeds are only achieved on an ideal RAID configuration with several hard drives connected on a SATA bus, as far as I know, you won't get those speeds with only one, nor even two, it has to be 4 hard drives configured as a RAID array to see those speeds.

I hope this helped somehow.

2007-01-30 23:19:58 · answer #2 · answered by HabanaBoy 2 · 0 0

SATA 3 and 1.5 are cross-compatible. 1.5Gbps is a much higher data rate than your hard disk can read or write, so you won't really notice any performance difference. The fast interface basically just means that data can flow from the hard disk's cache into system memory slightly quicker, which doesn't make any difference in real world use.

2007-01-30 22:42:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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