Is there a way to find out what SATA version/speed the motherboard supports ?

knowledge2121 · Jul 12, 2016

I have 2 laptops, the first one has the Serial ATA/600 interface [according to specs on amazon.com] which is SATA3 6Gb/s.

the second one is a bit old and I couldn't find a spec for it, however I ran the crucial scanner and it tells me this : Storage: SATA 3 - 6Gb/s

I am wondering if there is a way to check SATA3 compatibility ?

knowledge2121 · Jul 12, 2016

I also checked the HDD itself for the second laptop and it is SATA 2 3Gbs, so what does my mothersupport ? SATA2 or SATA3 ?

reedo_43 · Jul 12, 2016

What is the laptop? Either way it is backward compatible.

Hlsgsz · Jul 12, 2016

SATA is backwards compatible so SATA 3 drives will work on SATA 2 laptops and vice versa.
If you want to verify just fo the sake of iot what teh laptop supports you can run CPUZ, see what chipset the MB on it has and google that.

k1114 · Jul 12, 2016

It makes no difference to hdd performance but you can easily figure it out from what cpu you have.

reedo_43 · Jul 12, 2016

It would if he puts in a sata 3 ssd on a sata 2 port I believe...

boosted1g · Jul 12, 2016

If you do some research on the laptop you should be able to find what motherboard is in it and from there what sata version it supports.

As reedo stated, the only real noticeable difference is if you put a sata 3 SSD into a sata 2 port. Then the motherboard would be a bottleneck.

Eximo · Jul 12, 2016

Yes, a high end SATA SSD will max out around 200MB/s on a SATA II port, but most of the time a system doesn't need that much throughput. Still much faster than a hard drive.

k1114 · Jul 12, 2016

There are very few situations where the ssd would even max the speed so for most, even putting a ssd on sata 2 makes no difference. But he did say hdd so I only said hdd.

knowledge2121 · Jul 12, 2016

I am trying to upgrade to this SSD:

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00OBRE5UE/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A1K2SUXU652HJB&psc=1

and here is the MB tab on CPUZ:

My laptop is Asus G53SX-A1

k1114 · Jul 12, 2016

You've got sata 3. You can always look at something like crystaldiskinfo.

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