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espio100:
Stupid question but...
What the hell is SATA antways? I once had to pick up an external HDD woth 2.5 SATA to use it with some capture card but I honestly have no idea what it is. I assume it has something to do with the write speed

Becquerel:

--- Quote from: espio100 on December 13, 2015, 06:05:54 PM ---Stupid question but...
What the hell is SATA antways? I once had to pick up an external HDD woth 2.5 SATA to use it with some capture card but I honestly have no idea what it is. I assume it has something to do with the write speed

--- End quote ---
SATA is the latest in Hard Drive interfaces
It stands for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
Its a hard drive interface that connects the motherboard to the harddrive
its also a replacement for the old Parallel ATA system. In SATA, data is sent serially, meaning one at a time, which is faster than IDE / Parallel ATA, which sends data in groups.

Jasa:
SATA is this connector and the revision is the speed at which the controller is rated for.
SATA 1: 1.5GB/s
SATA 2: 3GB/s
SATA 3: 6GB/s
All revisions have the same connector and will run at the speed of the lowest link in the chain.
IE: If you're running a SATA 2 hard drive on a SATA 3 motherboard it will run at the speed of SATA 2 and vice versa.

Becquerel:

--- Quote from: Jasa on December 13, 2015, 06:13:09 PM ---SATA is this connector and the revision is the speed at which the controller is rated for.

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isnt there 2 cables per HDD / SSD? One for power and the other for data?

espio100:
Ah I see
Guess I learned something new today
And guess I should re-look my costum build before buying it.
I dont give 2 stuffs abou how fast I download or move thongs but I care allot about how fast my game loads.

Edit: HDD has SATA 6Gb/s and MB has "4 6Gb/ SATA". I have no idea really. 4 what? 4 sata slots? 4 sata cows?

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