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Sata interface spec?
Back in the old days of ReadyNAS, most all of the SATA hard drives used a 3GB/sec interface speed. Now I see SATA hard drives touting 6GB/sec interface speeds.
WUP? Do these 6GB/sec drives still 'talk' OK at 3GB/sec? I have not done the research to know whether my m/b SATA ports even support 6GB/sec! Darn! :oops:
I guess I am crusin' along believing/hoping that these new 6GB/sec hard drives can/will back down and still 'talk' on 3GB/sec channels. Am I close?
WUP? Do these 6GB/sec drives still 'talk' OK at 3GB/sec? I have not done the research to know whether my m/b SATA ports even support 6GB/sec! Darn! :oops:
I guess I am crusin' along believing/hoping that these new 6GB/sec hard drives can/will back down and still 'talk' on 3GB/sec channels. Am I close?
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NASNoob wrote: Do these 6GB/sec drives still 'talk' OK at 3GB/sec?
Yes.- You won't have any issues - lots of us have these 6 GB/s drives installed in our ReadyNAS.
- Currently 3GB/s is more than enough for harddrives, you wont even notice a difference between 1,5GB/s SATA-I and 3GB/s SATA-II.
Also all SATA standards are fully backwards compatible, so SATA-III SSD for example will run Happily on SATA-I, only difference would be speed.
HDD`s are different story, fastets ones can only reach about 190MB/s sequential read, so SATA-II is more than adequate.
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