how can i tell if my motherboard supports SATA?

[Far]

iv currently got 3 IDE drives, and am wanting to get another hdd, but the only one i can find which i want is SATA.

no idea if my motherboard supports this. how do i find out?

my motherboard is

http://www.superwarehouse.com/ASUS_P4R800-VM_Motherboard/P4R800-VM/p/341708

thanks.

 

[daneo1989]

im afraid that motherboard cannot support SATA as there is no Serial SATA ports on the board

mine is

http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Products/ProductsDetailPhoto.aspx?DetailID=692&LanID=0

/ancient

 

[Far]

thanks. looks like im gonna have to buy a new mobo and cpu then. my mobo is v old.

want a small hard drive which is 10000rpm, but can only see SATA hard drives for this speed.

 

[Senture]

Get a SeaGate 500GB SATA-II drive, they have almost the same read/write rate as the 10k Raptor's. £100+ for 150GB v £60 for 500GB

 

[Far]

ok. what would you say was the fastest drive available? dont need anymore than 150gb. only using it for windows folder and drivers etc. got another 4 drives of 1TB.

 

[Ragnar]

im afraid that motherboard cannot support SATA as there is no Serial SATA ports on the board

mine is

http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Products/ProductsDetailPhoto.aspx?DetailID=692&LanID=0

/ancient

Serial ATA. The ''S'' in SATA stands for serial.

ATA - Advanced technology attachment.

 

[Ragnar]

ok. what would you say was the fastest drive available? dont need anymore than 150gb. only using it for windows folder and drivers etc. got another 4 drives of 1TB.

Fastest, Raptors. But to get the most bang for buck, probably what senture said.

 

[Far]

just found sata to ide convertors. would this slow data transfer at all?

 

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Consider instead getting a PCI SATA controller.

That way, you get SATA ports natively

 

[Demonic]

just found sata to ide convertors. would this slow data transfer at all?

6 Lane Motorway going into a 3 Lane? Would that slow the traffic down at rush hour?? As Big A said - PCI Card is the answer