I have an older Asus Essentio CM5570-AP003 with a bad Seagate ST3750528AS SATA II HD and would like to know if I could replace it with an SATA III (WD Caviar Black WD5003AZEX) HD? Can you upgrade this unit to SATA III from II? I called ASUSTek and their support could not answer the question. The thread below touched on this but I am still unclear. My bad Seagate (second one to go bad in 2-years! makes me want to go with a nice and fast WD, more reliable I understand).
The WD is 68 MBps (6 Gbps) Rotational Speed: 7200 rpm Buffer: 64MB and the Seagate is 3 Gbps 7200 32MB.
Thanks
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/266168-32-sata-hard-drive-sata-port
The WD is 68 MBps (6 Gbps) Rotational Speed: 7200 rpm Buffer: 64MB and the Seagate is 3 Gbps 7200 32MB.
Thanks
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/266168-32-sata-hard-drive-sata-port