Upgrading to Serial ATA 10,000 RPM

[myforunner]

Ok straight to the point here...I have a PCV-RS314E I would like to put a Serial ATA hard drive for an upgrade and it will run as my boot drive, my original hard drive will be just for my storage. Now can my mother board support this Serial ATA hard Drive? Thanks for any info.

[seb21__]

Hy

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[William]

Before you rush out and buy this drive please wait for confirmation from someone who knows.

I don't know your model but I believe you would need an IDE drive. I say this because a SATA drive will need (I think) a sepearate interface card.

I could well be wrong!

William

[seb21__]

I agree with William.

Look this on for example

[kee-lo_]

Yes William, you need a PCI card to connect SATA drives unless the motherboard supports it (in this case it doesn't).

They're normally around £20.

[William]

Can they be cohfigured as a boot drive?

William

[kee-lo_]

Yes I think it can.
Usually the BIOS adds it to the boot list

[jammold]

Yes they definately can (else you can shoot me LOL), most of these cards have what is known as Option-ROM BIOS installed so that when the main system BIOS calls Option-ROM handlers and loaders before or during a POST procedure, the add-on Option-ROM BIOS is loaded and provides Boot support - much the same way as the messages such as this:

nVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64 BIOS Version 2.14 Rev. A
32.00MB SDRAM

are displayed for newer graphics cards...

[kee-lo_]

Yeah I thought they had ROM.
Wonder if the wireless cards have that too, so you can WOL

[seb21__]

WOL?

Ah you mean Wake On LAN


My LAN card on my PCG-FR315S can this, but with wireless, I don't know?