Eagle7

I have an ASUS A7V8X motherboard and i want to use maxtor SATA drives. Does anybody know where I can buy these?

I have mailed maxtor support, who say they are shipping these to their distributors, but i cant find anywhere retailing them.

please help!

ChrisB

I've just looked at the Maxtor listing for one of their main UK distributors - no sign of S-ATA models.

Best bet might be to use std IDE drives and get S-ATA convertors.

Fullonloon

They aren't shipping just yet, likely to be in distribution early next year.

NickAdams

iTrader: (5)

Have the same board as you (A7v8x with Raid,SATA,1394,USB2 etc) and in the same position.Personally,I'd wait a while until the technology isn't so new and that way the prices should drop.As the others have said,nobody is selling the drives anyway.....
Chris,I don't see an advantage to using std parallel ATA drives with SATA converters but am intrigued now.Tell me more? Where can you buy these things from? Is there really a performance benefit to be had from using them?

Cheers

Nick

ripmaze

Is that the motherboard with Gigabit Ethernet too? I'd like to upgrade my home network to Gigabit Ethernet but then I saw the price of the switches . Anyone have any issues with that m/b?

I want to upgrade and get Serial ATA RAID (ideally using that motherboard) but if the disks aren't available yet I guess I might as well wait .

ChrisB

Hi Nick,

I have seen some S-ATA to ATA convertors reviewd on one of the hardware sites.

Reading the Maxtor web site, they will be offering ATA and S-ATA interfaces on the same drive model. Hence, I'd presume the only difference is the physical connectors. Thus the performance increase comes from the increased bandwidth available.

However, it's also my understanding that most of the current motherboard implementations of S-ATA would struggle as the North Bridge (IIRC?) chip doesn't have the bandwidth to cope with a S-ATA drive running flat out.

Comments invited

Chris.