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using a sata 3 ssd on sata 2 pc

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September 25, 2014 4:04:57 AM

Basically i upgraded my system a week ago and go the samsung 840 250gb. My old ssd is a vertex 3 60gb ssd and i have placed it in my parents pc as their hdd died. Their pc is ddr2 and has a sata 2 port so does this mean that it will only run half the speed if even that?

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September 25, 2014 4:16:46 AM

It will max out at 3gb/s as that is the bandwidth limit of sata 2. sata 3 is 6gb/s but your ssd may not reach that
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September 25, 2014 4:17:32 AM

it run faster then a hard drive as there no moving parts but it will run slower then on a sata 3.0 port.
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