Humm... Obsessing over the specs for Son-of-no-name I wonder if anyone knows....
The motherboard has a single SATA chain with 3 connectors. The first two will go to the Segate 750GB SATA 3gb/s drives. The third will be for the Samsung SATA DVD burner that runs at the older 1.5gb/s spec.
Will having the DVD burner on the same chain drag down the speed of the drives to 1.5gb/s or can SATA deal with different speed devices on the same chain? So far Google is letting me down on this one.
EDITED TO ADD:
From this knowledgeable sounding post, it looks like I do have a problem.
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Originally Posted by Smart Guy
SATA, like PATA or USB, is backward-compatible.. but not forward compatible. Whatever the slower speed of either the device or the controller, that is all you will realize. If using a USB 2.0 device on a USB 1.0 port, it may not be recognized at all.. but any USB 1.0 device on a USB 2.0 port would. Just that the speed would be maximized at whichever device is slower. With a SATA or IDE drive, the device will work properly, but if the controller or device has the slower speed, that is all you will achieve. SATA is superior to PATA or IDE setups.. one device per controller, unlike the previous IDE setup which has two devices maximum per controller. If you connect two devices with different speeds, the slower device will govern all data speed.
SCSI is still superior, where different data speed devices can be connected to the same controller, without defaulting to the slowest device's data rate.
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