need mini help

[aiva114]

hi guys

i nee some help i wanth to buy s-ata hardedrive but the problem is you have sata1 and sata2 yes?? i don't know wich one i need on my motherboard spec table is riten that i have 2 serial ATA connectors (on my motherboard it self next to sata conectors standes sata1 and sata2) not more so wath could i do now?? hier is my motherboard spec

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...442&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=431830&lang=en some things i have upgraded.

plz help me:worship:

 

[nathan]

you can set most sata2 hard drives to sata1. Im going with a guess that your motherboard only supports sata 1, but dont quote me on that!

 

[FragTek]

I would also suspect that it's only SATA1 compliant. As nathan said, just buy SATA2 drives as most have a jumper on the back which lets you switch it in to a SATA1 compliance mode.

 

[aiva114]

thx guys for help

 

[aiva114]

ps does it worke with IDE harddrive??

 

[Nagaru]

No, SATA will not work with an IDE/Parallel ATA hard drive.

 

[Ham]

No, SATA will not work with an IDE/Parallel ATA hard drive.

You can get converters atch. i don't know if they go SATA->IDE or IDE->SATA though...

 

[aiva114]

ok if sata dosen't work with ide then i have a problem

thx 4 help:worship:

 

[markkleb]

Take a look at this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822998001

 

[Nagaru]

Sorry I was just stating that why were incompatible, and I have heard of people having problems with those adapters although they may have been user error for all I know.

 

[mVp24]

Why not just buy an IDE drive?

 

[aiva114]

thx for tip but i wasen't planing to buy it í'm goin to buy IDE harddrive it's just easyer in begin i wanted sata harddrive becouse it's faster then IDE and is beter price hier in holland

 

[aiva114]

i'm going to do that now

 

[Nagaru]

Don't worry about the speed, unless you were going for something like a Western Digital Raptor you won't notice the difference.