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Samsung SSD on sata II

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August 4, 2014 2:00:03 PM

I know that this question has been asked before but still i need a little more help.So i brought a samsung ssd 120gb and connected to sata II port because my pc doesn't support sata III .So my question is will there be any difference in speed ?Is there any addon that i can purchase and connect to my pc and make it support sata III?

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a b G Storage
August 4, 2014 2:04:30 PM

there is a bit of penalty but not too severe. the raw speed of the transfers will be a bit lower but still much faster than any mechanical hdd.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/storage-controller-perfor...
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ssd-upgrade-sata-3gbps,re...

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you could get a sata controller and plug it in a pci ex port but the speed difference doesn't justify an upgrade considering any new motherboard would offer the same sata 3 port built in. so best use the current config and when you upgrade switch to sata3.
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a b G Storage
August 4, 2014 2:05:39 PM

Sata II is about half as fast as Sata III. Most mainstream SSD's get close to fully saturating the Sata III speeds. You can buy any Sata add-on card that will fit in a PCIe slot.

Something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

There are tons of variants by any number of manufacturers.

Sata II vs Sata III really makes no appreciable difference in your OS or program experience unless you are doing huge transfers from SSD to SSD.
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August 6, 2014 3:04:41 AM

dwatterworth said:
Sata II is about half as fast as Sata III. Most mainstream SSD's get close to fully saturating the Sata III speeds. You can buy any Sata add-on card that will fit in a PCIe slot.

Something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

There are tons of variants by any number of manufacturers.

Sata II vs Sata III really makes no appreciable difference in your OS or program experience unless you are doing huge transfers from SSD to SSD.


Thank you for the info

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