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Re: Operating system

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Fri, 18 Jan 13 6:43 PM | 22 view(s)
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Sun,
Hard drives are RATED for various SATA SPEEDS.

To optimize that speed for the hard drive and your operating system which is searching for the data on thathard drive, you should match up a SATA 3 motherboard connector with a SATA 3 hard drive for optimal speed. It will still work if you don;t, because it is backward compatible.

SO, yes, the motherboard SATA connectors on YOUR motherboard ARE (4) sata 2.0 and (2) SATA 3.0.

I didn;t look close but I would match up that SATA hard drive with the highest rated SATA configuration, whether it is 2.0 or 3.0

Hope this clearly explains it for you!

The best,

micro...


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Re: Operating system
By: new_sun_rising
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Fri, 18 Jan 13 3:09 AM
Msg. 01692 of 02753

Micro,

I'd really really like to reinstall Windows XP - just because it's familiar and I know how to do some things in it that I haven't figured out in Windows 7 yet.

I'm concerned though that I might get the new motherboard and processor here and find out they don't support Windows XP - had that happen on one of the rebuilds.

Windows 8 is the same price as Windows 7 - but it's even more unfamiliar. But - I read that Windows 8 isn't the resource hog that Windows 7 is - so that would be good for folding I'm thinking.

Was hoping someone out there had tried Windows 8 and could report on it ;-)

Thanks for the note on the cables as I would have missed that and probably messed it up and then wondered what the problem is! The SATA 3 or 2 would be related to the motherboard connection - correct? Or are there SATA 3 hard drives and SATA 2 hard drives?

If you have a recommendation on a similar motherboard - feel free to speak up! I'm open!

Sun :-)


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