Harddrive Transfer Rate

Kinnyr90

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Hi,

I have an Issue. Or a possible issue. I have 2 hard drives in My computer the master is a Seagate I think barracuda 500 gig that Windows 7 home premium 64 bit is on. It's a sata 2 drive and uses a blue cable instead of a red which are both the same anyways. It shows up in my bios as 1 gig I assume that is the transfer rate. I don't know why it shows up as that but, The second drive the slave is a Hitachi, (Deskstar HDS722020ALA330 SCSI DISK DEVICE) This is the hard drive that shows up in the bios of my Gigabyte z77x ud5h motherboard 3gb is what it says in the ata information. So I assume that is the transfer rate. Now this is a sata 3 hard drive and It unplugged it and plugged it into a sata 3 port because it was on the same sata 2 port as the master hard drive it was either port 4 or 5 which are both sata 2 then I switched it too port 1 which is sata 3. Which I thought which switch the 3 gb reading in the bios to 6 gig telling me that's what the drive is getting for a transfer rate but it did not. Is there anyway to get the sata 3 drive to read 6 gig in the bios and I guess the sata 2 to read 3 gig.

Thanks

Kinnyr90
 
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to answer your question : no, the bios displays what it reads from the drive and in they way it was programmed to and you have no control over it.
The only important thing as the drive model and size are corretly detected.

What Smorizo was trying to say is that only an SSD can actually make use of sata3 ports. Since hard drives cannot transfer data fast enough to out-perform a sata2 port moving them to a sata3 port will make no difference except you'll have to move it back when you actually get an SSD or two <grin>

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to answer your question : no, the bios displays what it reads from the drive and in they way it was programmed to and you have no control over it.
The only important thing as the drive model and size are corretly detected.

What Smorizo was trying to say is that only an SSD can actually make use of sata3 ports. Since hard drives cannot transfer data fast enough to out-perform a sata2 port moving them to a sata3 port will make no difference except you'll have to move it back when you actually get an SSD or two <grin>
 
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