How do I tell if a SATA port is SATA 1, 2, or 3?

acehavok97 · Jan 30, 2014

How do I tell if a SATA port is SATA 1, 2, or 3 on my motherboard. If this helps it's the motherboard from a Dell XPS 435MT. And also will SATA 1 or 2 bottleneck 7200RPM drives? I know 3 won't because that can't even bottle neck SSDs at the moment.

getochkn · Jan 30, 2014

Almost positive it's SATA 2.

Eximo · Jan 30, 2014

That motherboard is likely to have SATA II with the intel chipset. It may have a third party controller that offers SATA III.

SATA I 1.5Gbps
SATA II 3.0Gbps
SATA III 6.0Gbps

Mechanical drives don't really need anything faster then SATA II, even then that is accommodate quick transfers from the cache. Most 7200RPM drives top out between 120 and 140 MB/s

SATA III is actually saturated by the faster SSDs at around 550 MB/s. A new standard will be available called SATA Express in the near future. SATA III will be the consumer standard for the next several years.

tachybana · Jan 30, 2014

Page 36 here says that is has SATA 3 connections as well

http://downloads.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_desktop/esuprt_studio_xps_desktop/studio-xps-435_Service%20Manual_en-us.pdf

Best Luck

Dereck47 · Jan 30, 2014

tachybana :

That's not the speed of the port, that's the port number. As Getochkn stated all 4 SATA ports are more than likely SATA 2 (3Gb/s).

acehavok97 · Jan 30, 2014

Dereck47 :

No tachybana is right, I just read it, it says there is one SATA 3 port.

prvt.alain · Aug 20, 2018

acehavok97 :

I Have A DELL Vostro 3900 I5 with H81 motherboard - it has 2 x HDD and 2 X ODD , Currently im using both HDD Sata ports (one with main internal HDD with windows , one with 3TB Nas internal drive). The other ODD ports ( one being used for the DVD Drive), My Question is can I connect a 2.5 SSD drive to the open ODD SATA port and how will I know if it is SATA 3gb/s or 6gb/s capable?

DSzymborski · Aug 20, 2018

prvt.alain :

acehavok97 :

I Have A DELL Vostro 3900 I5 with H81 motherboard - it has 2 x HDD and 2 X ODD , Currently im using both HDD Sata ports (one with main internal HDD with windows , one with 3TB Nas internal drive). The other ODD ports ( one being used for the DVD Drive), My Question is can I connect a 2.5 SSD drive to the open ODD SATA port and how will I know if it is SATA 3gb/s or 6gb/s capable?

Please start your own thread, do not necro a nearly five-year-old thread.

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