SATA or SATA2?

[Joe Bannon]

Does the Mac Pro require SATA2? I put in a new SATA drive and it wasn't discovered. Here is the drive I got.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148288

BTW, I'm not much of a techie, so please be easy on me.

 

[yellow]

Were you looking for it in the Disk Utility?

 

[trainguy77]

The Mac Pro supports SATA2 but it is backward compatible with SATA 1. And really you don't get much if any boost from SATA2. The drives can't even reach the speeds of SATA 1.

EDIT: that drives is SATA 2 anyway....3.0 Gb/s almost means SATA 2 vs 1.5 Gb/s is SATA 1

 

[Joe Bannon]

I followed these instructions...

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/MacPro_HardDrive_DIY.pdf

 

[trainguy77]

If its not mounting in disk utility it could be a dead drive.

 

[Joe Bannon]

If its not mounting in disk utility it could be a dead drive.

Grrr. I'll try again. I took the jumper off to see if that was the cause.

 

[Joe Bannon]

Didn't work. I'll have to send it back to NewEgg.

 

[Joe Bannon]

I went to Frys and got another, it worked.

 

[kirkbross]

Does the Mac Pro require SATA2? I put in a new SATA drive and it wasn't discovered. Here is the drive I got.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148288

BTW, I'm not much of a techie, so please be easy on me.

Just FYI the Seagate drive you first got was a SATA2.
SATA2 = SATA3.0 (same thing)
SATA1 = SATA150 (same thing)

 

[trainguy77]

Just FYI the Seagate drive you first got was a SATA2.
SATA2 = SATA3.0 (same thing)
SATA1 = SATA150 (same thing)

SATA 1.5 not 150 and its been mentioned already.

 

[kirkbross]

SATA 1.5 not 150 and its been mentioned already.

Weeeeeeeeee... yeah... 3.0/300. 1.5/150... SATA/SATA1... don't matter, they'll ALL be SSD in a few years. Drives with moving parts will be like floppies (mostly) are today. No?