SATA confusion

[Kal-El]

Question:

Newegg lists two kinds of SATA with their harddrives in their search:
Serial ATA150
SATA3.0Gb/s

I know the second 'appears' to be SATA2 (because all of the drives that support Native Command Queueing use SATA 3.0Gb/s according to their specs). My question is, will my SATA 1 board work with this? I have an Intel 845PEBT2 chipset (or something like that, I don't remember the exact line, but I know it's the 845P series). I'm not aware of what kind of compatibility issues there may be. Thanks!

[Kal-El]

sigh, nevermind, i answered my own question. apparently these drives have a sata150 jumper setting, making them compatible.

on that note, anyone have a brand preference? i'm heavily considering the samsungs, i'm seeing great things about their noise control technology.

[Rich A]

Originally Posted by Kal-El

sigh, nevermind, i answered my own question. apparently these drives have a sata150 jumper setting, making them compatible.

on that note, anyone have a brand preference? i'm heavily considering the samsungs, i'm seeing great things about their noise control technology.

I'm a big Western Digital fan, but I just ordered a few new drives from Seagate.

Check them out. SATA II, with 5 year warranty. Pretty reasonable price wise as well. Here's a page of them to browse for info:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...ice=&maxPrice=

By the way, I am currently running a pair of 250 mb Samsung SATA II drives for my own HTPC. Quiet and cool running.

[Vladi]

Seagate is my preference! I've been using Seagate drives for over 5 years now.

[enormus]

Another vote for Seagate. Good price to performance ratio and 5 year warranty is scarce these days. Quieter than all but the Maxtor's as well.

[Kal-El]

they're quieter than the samsungs? and is that to say that maxtor is the quietest of all of them? i'm definetly going to quiet. i just replaced my power supply (antec 500watt modular psu woot!), and will be replacing my cpu heatsink soon (bought a spire with a sleave bearing, only 19dbA), so i'd definetly like the get one as quiet as possible.

[enormus]

The fluid bearing Maxtor's are indeed the quietest I have tried. The three Seagates in my machine are very quiet, though. The other reason I chose the Seagates is for their NCQ compatibility with me Nforce4 motherboard. I wanted to avoid the corruption issues people have had with TCQ on the Western Digitals.