Hd and sata 3gb/s - 6gb/s question

fectofark · Jun 23, 2013

Hi people,
I just bought an additional hard drive (seagate barracuda 1tb 720rpm)

The annoying thing is I have about 5 normal sata cables spare but no 6gb/s. Will I need to go out and buy a new cable or will the hd work with a 3gb/s cable into a 3gb/s port?

Also if this will work will there be any noticeable difference is speed if I use a 3gb instead? I will be using the Hdd mainly to save fraps videos
Thanks.

unreal9400 · Jun 23, 2013

Most hard drives does not come close to SATA 3gb/s speed.
SATA 6 is only useful when you have an SSD.

Dark Lord of Tech · Jun 23, 2013

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/your_sata_cable_slowing_down_your_data_transfers_max_pc_investigates

The Verdict
Let’s first say that when we started this, we were absolutely sure we’d see a difference. Afterall, moving to an authentic SATA 6Gb/s cable cleared up our problems the first time right? Wrong. As we worked our way through the first few cables, we began to realize that the SATA I/O did its work when it first put together the Serial ATA spec for cables. There is virtually no difference between a brand-new SATA 6Gb/s marked cable made this year and one produced nearly eight years ago as far as performance goes. Expensive cable, cheap cable; long cable, short cable—none of it seemingly made a real difference. If anything, the minor variances in performance can be attributed to variances in the benchmark or the SSD.

During our testing, we also tested out a couple of often not recommended practices: bending your SATA cable at right angles. Many motherboard vendors recommend against putting right-angles into the cables during system builds so we took a cable and put about 15 right-angle kinks in it: no difference. We also took a 36-inch cable and tightly wrapped around a hot PSU cable: no difference.

What about joining two 36-inch cables end-to-end using male-to-male connectors? That’s about 30-inches outside the SATA spec for cable length: No, Difference. The only thing that stopped SATA dead in its tracks was running three 36-inch SATA cables end-to-end using cable No. 3, No. 4 and No 11. That’s nine feet of cables kids. Don’t try this at home!

fectofark · Jun 23, 2013

I used one of my regular SATA cables and connected it to a 3gb/s port and it worked fine. It's now formatting

thanks for the help.

Dark Lord of Tech · Jun 23, 2013

Sweet good to know!!!!!!!!

Glad to help!!!!!

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