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Hard Drive; Is my hard drive SATA or SCSI?

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  • 19-04-2012 10:32pm
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    LeakingLava
    Registered Users Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭


    Hi everybody. It's a simple question that I just can't find the answer to online. My hard drive is plugged into my motherboard using a SATA cable, but when I look in the device manager, I see my hard drives as, 'Samsung HD103UJ SCSI Disk Device' and the same for my other drives, 'SCSI Disk Device'. I just want to know what my hard drive is so I can find out what the difference of SATA and SCSI, too(in performance). If you could answer both that's great :D. Thanks in advance for everybody who will read/answer :)


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    m99T
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    I can only assume its SATA if it has the SATA port.


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    sink
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    Unless it's a server or workstation it's very unlikely to be SCSI. SCSI hard drives and controllers are much more expensive than SATA and are only really beneficial when dealing with a large array, due to the higher bandwidth allowed and the ability to hot swap. You will never find a SCSI hard drive in a standard desktop or laptop from an OEM vendor.


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    deceit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭deceit


    LeakingLava wrote: »
    Hi everybody. It's a simple question that I just can't find the answer to online. My hard drive is plugged into my motherboard using a SATA cable, but when I look in the device manager, I see my hard drives as, 'Samsung HD103UJ SCSI Disk Device' and the same for my other drives, 'SCSI Disk Device'. I just want to know what my hard drive is so I can find out what the difference of SATA and SCSI, too(in performance). If you could answer both that's great :D. Thanks in advance for everybody who will read/answer :)

    The drive is definitely a sata drive.


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