Hello! I just realized while looking in the bios that my kingston ssd is plugged into a sata II port. This is limiting the ssd in read/write speed correct? Would I be able to just swap my ssd from sata II to sata III? Or would I have to go through whole process to get this done? This is my only boot drive as my wd black is just a data drive. TIA
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Just tried it out and my motherboard ( asrock z77 extreme 4 ) detects it, but it doesnt detect it as a boot drive and tries booting from the data drive. The ssd is a kingston hyperx 3k. After switch it back to sata 2 and configuring the boot priorities to boot from the ssd windows then booted.
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Doubling is great! Now you are truly using the capabilities of the SSD!
Just for info - SATA 0 port has the highest priority; then SATA 1, SATA 2, SATA 3, SATA 4, etc.
You will see this in the BIOS. And whatever SATA ports are used should be turned ON in the BIOS. On my computer case I have two hot swap front bays (HDD) and I have to turn those two SATA ports to "Hot Plug" and my BIOS has "Enable" "Disable" "Hot Plug" options in the BIOS. I use these two hot swap HDDs primarily for backups; very convenient.
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[/quotemsg]Well thank you for your help! Cant believe I have only been using half of my ssd's speed for as long as i could remember.[/quotemsg]
The SATA II and SATA III ports are color coded. The manual explains this but who reads manuals! I have both types of ports on my motherboard, and on different controllers!
The SATA II and SATA III ports are color coded. The manual explains this but who reads manuals! I have both types of ports on my motherboard, and on different controllers!
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