SATA is a newer technology, but its gaining some speed

i dont know much about it.. but im running a SATA board with a SATA HDD

dont count me on this.. but i think SATA I and SATA II are backwards compatiable... seems to be teh trend nowadays

try and think of it like USB and USB2... one is just faster

from what i got from nihil's link... SATA II is the old company name... which is now SATA IO...

if you get a drive that is SATA 150.. it will run at 150m/s ... if you get a SATA 3gig... it will run at 3gig/s

just trying to simplify.. hope this helps


and if you buy the wrong drive... you can most likely return it..



last thing... browse this over.. little extra verbage but might help some

http://www.sata-io.org/docs/serialata%20-%20a%20comparison%20with%20ultra%20ata%20technology.pdf