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Hi,

I have 2 WD Caviar SE 16MB cache drives in my machine, which I intend to use in a RAID 0 array purely for games and data.

I need to get a new drive for the OS, and the mobo uses SATAII. Does anyone know whether I would be able to use a 74GB Raptor (a SATA 150Gb/s drive) with this board? I'm looking for a single high performance drive - would the Raptor be my best choice?

Any help would be appreciated.

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Yes you will SATAII ports a backwards compatible.


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