[ale] Related to my HDD ?

[charriglists at bellsouth.net (Calvin Harrigan)]

Scott Castaline wrote:
> I just realized that my SATA Host Adapter is the older 150 technology. 
> It was made by Adaptec. I went to their site and it seems that they no 
> longer make anything like mine in the 300 technology. For now can I 
> connect a 300 drive to a 150 interface? Also any recomendations on a 
> SATA300 HA? I do not need the raid capability, just a basic 2 or more 
> drive interface that is a PCI card and not PCI-Express or whatever else.
>
> TIA
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Yes you can connect a 300 to a 150 interface..  There isn't much to be
gained except for burst speed on the 300.  Sorta like the 66 vs 100 in
the early days.  You can't maintain 150 MB/s from any hard disk
currently in production.  You can just barely maintain half that.


Calvin...