Sata III on oldest SATA II mobo

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Hi

I have a Phenom II X6 1055T on a Gigabyte ga880 ud2h motherboard
I have for now a 60Gb SSD Sata II drive, but was thinking to upgrade to a larger one (120 or 128Gb) SATA III SSD drive. Problem is my mobo doesn't have SATA III ports....
What are my best options: stick with a SSD Sata II drive, or buy a controller card such as the SYBA SATA III card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124064)
will this card be a bottle neck ?
Doe it even make sense to install a SSD Sata III on such controller card?
Thanks
 
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clutchc
I've never evaluated SSDs by "cheap", so I will pass on that. But here is a hierarchy chart that isn't too old you may find interesting: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269-6.html
Another option for gaining access time speed up would be to pick up a Sandisk Ready Cache: http://www.sandisk.com/products/ssd/sata/readycache/
For $40 you can make your existing HDD seem like a SSD for the most often used pgms. It works as a persistent cache to the HDD. Here is a trusted review of it by a quality reviewing site: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/10/17/sandisk_readycache_32gb_ssd_review/#.Uu8K07T1w6I
I put one on an older SATA II system I had awhile back. Made it feel like my whole 1GB HDD was a SSD...
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There's no sense buying a SATA II SSD since the prices are about the same as for SATA III models. Plus it would be available for a future upgrade to anew MB if that should be in your realm of possibilities.
Yes, buying a good quality SATA III controller would improve throughput over the SATA II headers. But I have never used one, so I'd be hesitant on recommending one.

The speed improvement with even SATA II using a SSD is enough to make it worthwhile. I have done it myself. I would estimate it as about 3/4 of the way from HDD speed to SATA III SSD speed.
 
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I've never evaluated SSDs by "cheap", so I will pass on that. But here is a hierarchy chart that isn't too old you may find interesting: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269-6.html
Another option for gaining access time speed up would be to pick up a Sandisk Ready Cache: http://www.sandisk.com/products/ssd/sata/readycache/
For $40 you can make your existing HDD seem like a SSD for the most often used pgms. It works as a persistent cache to the HDD. Here is a trusted review of it by a quality reviewing site: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/10/17/sandisk_readycache_32gb_ssd_review/#.Uu8K07T1w6I
I put one on an older SATA II system I had awhile back. Made it feel like my whole 1GB HDD was a SSD. At least with the pgms I used everyday.
 
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