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    Mar 16, 2007, 09:08 PM
    Is there a pci sata II Card?
    I'm thinking of buying a bigger hard drive, Sata II 500 gb.
    However,
    My motherboard has a serial sata 150 controller which is only up to 150 MB transfer speed.
    I want to utilize the new sata II 3gb transfer speed of that new drive.
    Is there a pci sata II card and where can I purchase one? Must be windows Vista compatible.
    I'm not interested in doing raid at all... I'm just looking forward to buying 1 hard drive. 500 gbs should be plenty... for now.
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    Mar 16, 2007, 10:03 PM
    Found the answer.
    Sata 1 has no real benefits over Sata 2... sata 2 is just just an interface specification.
    "The sata 2 PCI card, if anything, will perform worse than the chipset's SATA-I ports - simply because the card is on the slow PCI bus while the chipset's own channels are on a much faster internal connection."
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