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SATA vs SATA II

Screaming Monkey · 2007-07-29 21:12:00

a friends computer hard-drive broke the other day, got some of the data off it with a BartPE cdrom. Hard drive is an old'ish SATA 160GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and the PC is a HP Pavillion. Can i get one of the new SATA II drives (http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=320709) , Whats the difference between SATA and SATA…

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29-07-2007 10:12pm

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Screaming Monkey

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a friends computer hard-drive broke the other day, got some of the data off it with a BartPE cdrom. Hard drive is an old'ish SATA 160GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and the PC is a HP Pavillion.

Can i get one of the new SATA II drives (http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=320709) , Whats the difference between SATA and SATA II, I have heard SATA/SATA II are backward compatible but not 100%

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#2 29-07-2007 10:24pm
Creamy Goodness

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they are 100% backwards compatible, i think the only difference is SATA II has the ability to be faster

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