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im lookign fo a new HD and i want it to be about 250gb, and it has to be sata, i was wondering if i bought a sata HD, and my comp uses sata ports is there anything i could go wong with......

and what exactly is sata2?

dark_legacy2006

also i forgot to mention, what brand should i be leaning towards is seagate alright?

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dark_legacy2006

if your motherboard has SATA ports than yes, it will work. And SATA2 is supposably faster than SATA but you can't tell all that well.

Seagate, Maxtor, Western Digital are all good brands.

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Calibretto

if your mobo is sata get sata. if it's sata II get sata II.

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pdc76

SATAII (or SATA2) is backwards compatible with SATA.

My suggestions:
Make sure to get 7200RPM, as well as 16MB of cache. SATAII is also worth it, even if your motherboard doesn't support it, because you can use SATAII for your next computer

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Jet

thanks Jet and everyone else

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dark_legacy2006

Just get a HDD running at 7200RPMs plus, and 16mb cache. I would recommend this one: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...9837&CatId=139
Or this one for $25 more.

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Motoxrdude

so i shouldnt worry about getting sata2?

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dark_legacy2006

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so i shouldnt worry about getting sata2?

Well, does you motherboard support SATAII? It's also labeled as SATA 3gb/s btw. It doesnt make a huge difference, but its a nice thing to have.

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Motoxrdude

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SATAII (or SATA2) is backwards compatible with SATA.

My suggestions:

Make sure to get 7200RPM, as well as 16MB of cache. SATAII is also worth it, even if your motherboard doesn't support it, because you can use SATAII for your next computer

Well arent all sata and sata boards capible, like on a plain sata board wouldnt it jsut not take advantage of the sata2 feature?

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