ASROCK N68C GSFX Need help on Hard drive compatibility please!

[Clemente Aguja III]

Hi, Newbie here

Here's my desktop's specs:

AMD FX(tm)-4100 Quad Core Processor
RAM 8 GB DDR3
NVIDIA GEFORCE 9800 GT
ASROCK N68C-GSFX
CHIPSET NVIDIA GEFORCE 725
SOUTHBRIDGE NVIDIA NFORCE 630a
LPCIO Winbond W83627DHG-P


Don't know what i'm looking at here but i'm Planning on buying an internal HD for my desktop, need something around 1TB. doesn't cost much and is compatible with my motherboard. My Current Hard drives are almost full and really want to save files and games , mostly i end up deleting them although i wanted to keep them(movies and games). Please help!

 

[SuperSoph_WD]

Hey there, Clemente Aguja III!

Judging on your motherboard's specs you will not be facing any issues in terms of compatibility. You have 4 x SATA 2 (3Gb/s) connectors on it and they even support RAID configurations. Even if your HDD is SATA 3 (6Gb/s) it will be backward compatible with the SATA 2 connectors on the mobo. There would be no limitations on the capacity of the drive either, so you are good to go!
The only thing about SATA 3 drives is that you will be getting the speed of the SATA 2 connectors, but you won't notice the difference in that speed either.
If you plan to use that drive as a secondary storage, I'd most probably go for even larger capacity of the HDD.

Hope this was helpful!
SuperSoph_WD

 

[Clemente Aguja III]

thanks for the quick reply this site is very reliable and i always try to search things related to my setup even though i don't understand much. but thanks for everything.