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Using a SSD with a SATA II mobo

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December 28, 2013 8:22:26 AM

So can I use a SSD with SATA II ports and if I can is going to me much slower than using SATA III port?

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December 28, 2013 8:31:01 AM

Yes it will work. Yes it will be slower. Read/write speeds will be almost cut in half but it should still be faster than an HDD.
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December 28, 2013 8:33:01 AM

You will not notice the difference.
Most of what we do is small random I/O, and the sata 2 interface impacts those not at all.
Where you will see a difference with sata 3 is large block sequential I/O.
Really, though, you will only see that in synthetic benchmarks which are useless. Sequential will still be 2x faster than the best hard drive, and random will be 50x faster .
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December 28, 2013 8:40:41 AM

geofelt said:
You will not notice the difference.
Most of what we do is small random I/O, and the sata 2 interface impacts those not at all.
Where you will see a difference with sata 3 is large block sequential I/O.
Really, though, you will only see that in synthetic benchmarks which are useless. Sequential will still be 2x faster than the best hard drive, and random will be 50x faster .


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December 28, 2013 8:44:39 AM

Any SSD can go in any SATA port be it I, II or III. The speed of the drive will depend on the port. If it's a SATA II port you have on your mobo then max data transfer rate is 3Gb/s

SATA III is 6Gb/s
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