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| So I buy the mainboard, figuring I will later get the serial ATA hdd. It's later, but now I am perplexed. The SATA hdd's I am looking at are ATA150 and the mainboard manual says it supports SATA 133. So will the ATA150 hdd's work on this board, and if so will I get 150? Secondly, Seagate says their Sata's require a separate power connector, but Maxtor doesn't say this. I thought that the SATA hdd's got power from the cable connector. Do I need adaptors? Did I spring for the Deluxe version for nothing? Know of a site that has a good tutorial on SATA hdd's?
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| SATA started out at 150. Are you sure it doesn't read "ATA 133" or "PATA 133"?
SATA drives don't get power from the cable that transfers the data. You need a separate one but most motherboards with built-in SATA connectors don't provide these. You'll need special cables converting from a molex plug from the power supply to the small SATA-type connector.
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| Thanks for the reply--don't know where I got the idea that these things were powered through the cable, must have misread some site or other.
But, this from a site:"...the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 200GB SATA drive is the more traditional desktop drive. Although it does sport a Serial ATA port and SATA-style power connector, the drive also retains a standard Molex-style, four-pin power connector -- no power adapter needed."
Yep. The manual says: "11) SATA Serial ATA Connectors (2 x 7 pin PRI_SATA1, SEC_SATA1)
Two headers support serial ATA133 devices including hard-drives and cd-roms."
So. Unless I use a Maxtor, I will need a separate power adapter. And what about this dingdang 'serial SATA133' in the manual? Misprint? I'll look over the Asus site, again, but I didn't see anything the first time.
Aha! found this at Asus, finally:
"Serial ATA is the next generation ATA specification that provides scalable performance for today and tomorrow. With up to 150MB/s data transfer rate, Serial ATA is faster than current Parallel ATA, while providing 100% software compatibility."
MB came with cables, so if I use a Maxtor SATA hdd, I plug the thing into the PSU as usual and connect the hdd to the SATA header [controller is already installed, according to the Device Manager], and I am in business? |
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| I'll look it up.
As far as the Maxtor is concerned... I didn't know they supported both power connector types; good thinking of them at this time.
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| Yeah, it says so in the manual at page 27.
I'm confused.... 
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| WD comes with standard power as well as SATA connectors. I think Seagate is losing customer's patience selling drives that are in excess of 100$ that DO NOT have the necessary cables to run them. I know I lost it with them. That is absurd.
EDIT:WD does not come with the SATA power cable, rather the ability to attach to normal power cable(regular IDE Hard Drive)
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| guys i had the same question, will sata150 drive work on my asusa7n8xd board that claims to have sata133 not sata150 :s
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