Can I attach a new sata drive to my existing Seagate 80GB SATA HDD?

praka123 · 03-02-2007, 04:09 AM

Hello friends,
I've got a seagate 80 GB sata hdd brought 2 years back and running fine.Now i am running out of space and want to buy a new sata 160 GB drive.I've got a intel 915GAV board.
The problem is will i be able to connect the new SATA drive to the mobo.afaik sata drives are connected something like serially

.so please help and how can i able to say whether my mobo/existing sata hdd supports an additional sata drive.any other different versions of sata available,I've heard phrases like sata2 etc.below is the details of my seagate sata.

Code:

ubuntu:~$  cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: ATA      Model: ST380013AS       Rev: 3.18
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 05

Also pls answer what is SCSI hdd drives,will it offer extra performance
over sata and will I be able to attach SCSI drives to my gigabyte 915GAV mobo.thanks ya all

nishant_nms · 03-02-2007, 07:57 AM

simply buy a SATA hard disk and connect it to ur mobo. It will work without any problem with ur existing PATA disk. Regarding SATA2 it is a new sata standard supporting 2Gbps transfer speed. But I don't think that ur mobo supports SATA 2

praka123 · 04-02-2007, 06:18 AM

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simply buy a SATA hard disk and connect it to ur mobo. It will work without any problem with ur existing PATA disk.

But i have a sata 80 gb disk already!.now am doubtful of whether a new sata hdd can be connected to my mobo....

sam9s · 04-02-2007, 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by praka123

Hello friends,
I've got a seagate 80 GB sata hdd brought 2 years back and running fine.Now i am running out of space and want to buy a new sata 160 GB drive.I've got a intel 915GAV board.
The problem is will i be able to connect the new SATA drive to the mobo.afaik sata drives are connected something like serially

.so please help and how can i able to say whether my mobo/existing sata hdd supports an additional sata drive.any other different versions of sata available,I've heard phrases like sata2 etc.below is the details of my seagate sata.
Also pls answer what is SCSI hdd drives,will it offer extra performance
over sata and will I be able to attach SCSI drives to my gigabyte 915GAV mobo.thanks ya all

I dont know whats the fuss about, you mobo supports 4 SATA connectors so you can very well connect 4 SATA drives. 915 supports SATA II as well, even if its does'nt you can still use SATA II and it will work as SATA I. There is no price difference between both so you loose nothing even if it works as SATA I.
SATA drives are connected serially true but you dont have to take care of that, you simply connect the SATA drive to the existing sata connector with the cable (usually RED one) and start working.

SCSI (small or scalable computer system interphase). A standard for high-speed connections to peripherals. SCSI is used to connect peripherals to a computer. It allows you to connect harddisks, tape devices, CD-ROMs, CD-R units, DVD, scanners, printers and many other devices.

SCSI HDD rotate at better RPM (10K-15K) have a better cache, better internal/external transfer rate, but they are expensive and you need a scsi card to connect them. Usually they are used in servers. You wont be needing them unless you are in to heavy graphic/movie animation, for which you anyhow would also be needing oodles or RAM and processing power.