I have a 3gbps motherboard but am thinking about installing a 6gbps hd drive th

[Matthew_D]

Hello,

I have a 880GM-E41 Motherboard and am looking to expand my hard drive space. The motherboard is at 3gbps and I'm looking at installing a 6gbps hard drive, I know I won't get 6gbps, but there are more attractive (specs) 6gbps out there and was wondering if I would have any conflict. I am looking at two hard drives: Seagate ST3000DM001 and Seagate ST2000DL003

Thanks for any and all advice!

_Matt D

 

[smorizio]

Hello,

I have a 880GM-E41 Motherboard and am looking to expand my hard drive space. The motherboard is at 3gbps and I'm looking at installing a 6gbps hard drive, I know I won't get 6gbps, but there are more attractive (specs) 6gbps out there and was wondering if I would have any conflict. I am looking at two hard drives: Seagate ST3000DM001 and Seagate ST2000DL003

Thanks for any and all advice!

_Matt D

you wont the hard drive controler will fail back to sata 3.0 speeds.

 

[Dereck47]

No, you won't have any conflicts. Both drives will work with your motherboard.

 

[willard]

You won't have any problems at all, everything will just work.

Also, no hard drive ever manufactured can saturate a 3 GB/s SATA port. You'd need an SSD to see any benefit from going from SATA II to SATA III. Any difference in performance between HDDs would be minimal.

 

[Matthew_D]

Thank you everyone for the help. It's much appreciated!