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Best SSD for SATA II (3Gb/s)

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June 23, 2014 11:23:03 AM

System:

Asus M3A MB with a AMD Phenom X6 1055T
Slowest part of the system seems to be the HDD and, because recently the SSD prices have dropped a lot, I decided to take this route (or at least consider it)

The MB is limited to SATA II which for sequential reading/writing is far below today's SSDs but random reads/writes are not as high. Will I see a bottleneck when using a recent SSD in any other case except sequential reads/writes?

If not, do you have any suggestions for a fast SSD that will work well on a SATA II port?

Or, put in other words: is there any SSD today that can saturate a SATA II on random reads/writes?

Thanks in advance!

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June 23, 2014 11:27:15 AM

A SATA II is 3.0 mbps and SATA III is 6.0 mbps. Any SSD should work fine. An SSD on SATA II will double the performance of an HDD; SATA III will quadruple the performance. Either way, it will be a good upgrade.
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June 23, 2014 11:29:40 AM

Then the question is:

Except sequential reads/writes, after what (advertised/tested) specs I won't see any improvement?
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June 23, 2014 11:33:37 AM

Your Windows boot and load times will be cut in half compared to an HDD. Yes, you will see some improvement.
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June 23, 2014 12:21:48 PM

YES, upgrading from HDD to ANY SSD is good.
My question is WHICH SSD.

The PC was built by me and no windows on it
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June 23, 2014 12:37:06 PM

curiosul said:
YES, upgrading from HDD to ANY SSD is good.
My question is WHICH SSD.

The PC was built by me and no windows on it


Oh, I thought you have an ASUS-brand system. Sorry about that.

Anyway, Samsung or Intel is what you should look into.
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July 9, 2014 4:16:34 AM

SATA3 supports a max of 715MB/s (6Gb/s) A good SSD is something like Intels 128GB 530 series :) 
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