Harddrive and motherboard compatibility?

[Jonathan90]

wondering about harddrive compatibility with my motherboard

would this harddrive
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/128704

work with this motherboard
Foxconn P4M8907MA

i do understand etc about ide sata and what av ya but i ahve no idea what my motherboard is ata 300?

[DaiNasty]

It looks like that mobo only supports SATA 150.

Storage Controller
ATA-133, Serial ATA-150 (RAID)

which means that the harddrive will work but you will need to set a jumper on the drive to restrict it to the slower mode.

[Graham M]

Originally Posted by DaiNasty

It looks like that mobo only supports SATA 150.

Storage Controller
ATA-133, Serial ATA-150 (RAID)

which means that the harddrive will work but you will need to set a jumper on the drive to restrict it to the slower mode.

Not always the case however, most of the time they'll auto-negotiate!

[nffc]

Originally Posted by Graham M

Not always the case however, most of the time they'll auto-negotiate!

Yeah, some do and some don't... One of mine does, the other doesn't for example. The two in my server did. It depends on the MB/chipset and the drive.

[Jonathan90]

do you think i should risk it lol not this is my second encounter with internet shopping lol
and dainasty which shall i set the jumper at see i only have an ide drive atm and to my knowledge sata are faster will i see eny better performance taking into an account that its ata 150

[Halcyon]

You should be fine.
Most SATAII drives (SATA 300) come shipped with a jumper on them so if you hook it up it will run at SATA1 speed.
Once you take it off it will run at SATAII speed but only if motherboard supports SATAII otherwise it will run at SATA1 speed.

[Jonathan90]

is sata 1 speed faster than ide

[Halcyon]

Yes it is.

[DaiNasty]

Originally Posted by Jonathan90

is sata 1 speed faster than ide

In theory SATA1 is slightly faster than ATA133. However, the limiting factor is the rest of the disk hardware.

SATA1 can achieve transfer rates of 1.5Gbits per second which is waaaay faster than the disk can handle. The disk hardware can only manage about 120MBytes per second so the ATA/SATA speeds are largely irrelevant.

The limiting factor is the speed that the read head(s) on the disk can physically align themselves with the correct track and read the data off the surface.

I guess you could achieve a much faster transfer rate by using a solid-state media such as a flash drive but the limiting factor with conventional hard disks will always be the 'moving parts'

[boroboi]

Solid state drives (HDD's) are the way forward, but they are so ridiculously expensive at the moment, its unreal.

[David F]

no they are not Racetrack memory are http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/19...ck-memory.html

[boroboi]

It looks interesting, but i think SSD's, if come down in price, could actually beat their way to a maket share before RaceTrack memory is able to be fully developed. By that i mean mass produced into consumer level hardware solutions, and will it be as cheap as they say it is?

Also, are they producing it for storage purposes or as an alternative to DDR memory? I see a lot of mentions of comparisons to RAM than i do with permanent storage.

[David F]

oh they will you are right . It is just a time thing. I think racetrack could be a full memory storage solution doing away with the need for both hdds and system ram

[boroboi]

Yeah, if its fast enough for RAM and cheap enough to produce into the hundreds of Gigabytes, then i could see a dedicated page file, or "RAM Area" being set aside, or even a seperate smaller race track drive being able to be used to swap.