SATA 2 computer. SATA 3 drive better than SATA 2?
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Welcome to the TH community, @wovlerine!
It really depends on the drive as you weren't specific if you are talking about a mechanical hard drive (HDD) or a solid-state drive (SSD)?
You wouldn't have any issues with a mechanical hard drive, even if it's SATA III (6 Gb/s) as its capabilities cannot exceed the bandwidth of a SATA II (3 Gb/s) port either way.
However, if your SATA III drive is an SSD, you will definitely be bottlenecking its performance. Solid-state drives are high-bandwidth devices and can reach transfer spped rate over 500 MB/s! This is something a SATA II port (3 Gb/s = 300 MB/s) cannot provide.
Keep me posted with the details and let me know if you have more questions!
Best of luck!
SuperSoph_WD
It really depends on the drive as you weren't specific if you are talking about a mechanical hard drive (HDD) or a solid-state drive (SSD)?
You wouldn't have any issues with a mechanical hard drive, even if it's SATA III (6 Gb/s) as its capabilities cannot exceed the bandwidth of a SATA II (3 Gb/s) port either way.
However, if your SATA III drive is an SSD, you will definitely be bottlenecking its performance. Solid-state drives are high-bandwidth devices and can reach transfer spped rate over 500 MB/s! This is something a SATA II port (3 Gb/s = 300 MB/s) cannot provide.
Keep me posted with the details and let me know if you have more questions!
Best of luck!
SuperSoph_WD
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Welcome to the TH community, @wovlerine!
It really depends on the drive as you weren't specific if you are talking about a mechanical hard drive (HDD) or a solid-state drive (SSD)?
You wouldn't have any issues with a mechanical hard drive, even if it's SATA III (6 Gb/s) as its capabilities cannot exceed the bandwidth of a SATA II (3 Gb/s) port either way.
However, if your SATA III drive is an SSD, you will definitely be bottlenecking its performance. Solid-state drives are high-bandwidth devices and can reach transfer spped rate over 500 MB/s! This is something a SATA II port (3 Gb/s = 300 MB/s) cannot provide.
Keep me posted with the details and let me know if you have more questions!
Best of luck!
SuperSoph_WD
It really depends on the drive as you weren't specific if you are talking about a mechanical hard drive (HDD) or a solid-state drive (SSD)?
You wouldn't have any issues with a mechanical hard drive, even if it's SATA III (6 Gb/s) as its capabilities cannot exceed the bandwidth of a SATA II (3 Gb/s) port either way.
However, if your SATA III drive is an SSD, you will definitely be bottlenecking its performance. Solid-state drives are high-bandwidth devices and can reach transfer spped rate over 500 MB/s! This is something a SATA II port (3 Gb/s = 300 MB/s) cannot provide.
Keep me posted with the details and let me know if you have more questions!
Best of luck!
SuperSoph_WD
What it means is that all other things being equal you will not find benefit from the Sata 3 drive as this is only about the interface, not the drive speed itself. So unless your Sata 3 drive is capable of reaching that 300MB/s whereas the Sata 2 drive was not, in itself there won't be a benefit to Sata 3.
If I may be so bold ;-). Regards.
If I may be so bold ;-). Regards.
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