SATA 1.0 & 3.0 used together?

Nakkiel

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Does it slow the speed of the SATA 3.0 (6 Gb/s) when you are using a 1.0 (1.5 Gb/s) at the same time? I just got an SSD and my secondary HD is a 3.0 as well, but I'm thinking of using a third (My old 1.0) solely for recording shows.
 
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Not really. SATA ports are typically one to one data pathways (not like the old IDE drives that reverted to the least common denominator for devices connected to a common IDE cable) and they are really not subject to the sorts of throttling you ask about.

Recycling an old HDD for storage is a good idea and shouldn't slow your other drives (unless transferring data from one drive to another).

COLGeek

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Not really. SATA ports are typically one to one data pathways (not like the old IDE drives that reverted to the least common denominator for devices connected to a common IDE cable) and they are really not subject to the sorts of throttling you ask about.

Recycling an old HDD for storage is a good idea and shouldn't slow your other drives (unless transferring data from one drive to another).
 
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