Thanks for the info. guys. I got the drive today and boy is it fast!

"Mike Walsh" <spamscks@netrox.net> wrote in message
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>
> Performance will be the same. 1.5 Gb/sec is much faster than the drive can
> read or write.
>
> USR wrote:
>>
>> Hello:
>>
>> I'm hoping that someone can answer the following question ... before I
>> fork
>> out money for a new SATA hard drive.
>>
>> I'm thinking of getting a Seagate ST3320620AS hard drive. The benchmarks
>> for the drive look awsome. However, my motherboard does not have 3.0Gb/s
>> capabilties. I know that the drive will still run at 1.5Gb/s. I will
>> not
>> be using a RAID setup.
>>
>> My question is, will the drive's performance go down by setting it to
>> 1.5Gb/s or, will the performance be the same?
>>
>> TIA
>
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> Mike Walsh
> West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.