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    Help - Sata I or Sata II on Vaio FZ

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by GoSensGo, Jun 27, 2007.

  1. GoSensGo

    GoSensGo Notebook Consultant

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    I am planning on replacing my hard drive in my new vaio FZ notebook. It comes with a 80 gb 5400rpm sata hard drive (they don't specify I or II but I'm guessing I). I want to put in a 160 gb 7200.2 seagate monentus sata II notebook hard drive. Will it run at 3.0 or will it only run at 1.5? Do I need to set a jumper on the hard drive or do any special for it to work?
     
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  2. thegsrguy

    thegsrguy Notebook Deity

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    The drive isn't physically fast enough to even use SATA-II (3.0Gbps)...so it won't matter. There's no speed benefit to you.

    SATA-II is really only necessary when there are several devices on the same bus sending and receiving data at the same time.
     
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    yeah thats what i thought too. the bus is too fast for one drive.
    but i think the faster the bus the lower cpu usage when the hdd is read. though between sata1 and 2, i think the differece is too small to notice.
    but it is noticable from ide to sata.
     
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