T61 Support SATA II ?

[chanseng]

I try to upgrade my T61 harddisk to 320G WDC WD3200BEVT.

This drive was used in my Acer PC. Using the Intel Storage manager, I confirm it is working as SATA II drive (generation 2).

However, when I install this drive to my T61.  It only display as generation 1.

[erik community supermod]

welcome to the forum!

the T61 supports SATA II but is limited to 1.5 Gb/sec interface speed.

edit: typo

Message Edited by erik on 11-02-2008 11:47 PM

[chanseng]

Thank you for your quick reply. I though this is a 965 chipset PC and should support 3.0GB?

Could this be the reason that Intel Storage manager reporting the drive as generation 1?

Message Edited by chanseng on 10-30-2008 10:00 AM

[ryanq1221]

Why it is limited to 150 GB/sec interface speed ?

I thought "ICH8M-Enhanced I/O Controller Hub" should make this work.

So basically SATA II will not function as it should be in T61, right?

[chanseng]

Yes, quite suprised to me. Anyone got a answer for it?

[chanseng]

So it must be some control via BIOS?

I check from WD website. In fact the 250G (SATA1) and 320G(SATA2) has the same power rating.

Unless the Intel chipset takes more power when SATA2 is enabled.

[ryanq1221]

Is it possible that user can configure this from BIOS or Matrix Manager or anywhere else?

[chanseng]

I check the BIOS and Intel Matrix manager. There is no setting for it.

Message Edited by chanseng on 11-02-2008 03:27 PM

[billbolton Community Moderator]

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erik wrote:

the T61 supports SATA II but is limited to 150 GB/sec interface speed.

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WOW, I'd like to see that!

That should read 1.5Gbps... which is much faster than any single mechanical drive to date can achieve.

Cheers,

Bill

Message Edited by billbolton on 11-03-2008 01:52 PM

[georg]

The media transfer rate, i.e. the speed, at which a hard disk can read data from or write data to the disk surface, for a 320 GB 2.5" HDD running at 5400 rpm is typically less than 800 Mbit/s. Therefore, it is irrelevant whether the disk interface performs at 1.5 Gbit/s or 3.0 Gbit/s. The limiting factor is the media transfer rate and not the interface.