SATA 3 & SATA 2

[Peter Ng]

Hi, I just wish to get some help to clarify the following:-

I have both SATA2 & SATA3 drives for my new Mobo ASUS P8H67-i Deluxe, should I link my SATA2 drive with SATA3 cable & port. or I should use the old SATA2 cable and Port. I understand the 3 would be competable downward with 2, however, would it affect the speed in data transfer.

Will any friend can help me out. Many thanks.

Peter Ng

 

[Rusting In Peace]

There will be no difference in performance of data transfer when using a SATA2 HDD in a SATA2 or a SATA3 port.

Very few hard drives even saturate SATA2. So all these "SATA3" regular hard drives are a waste of money right now as there are no performance improvements. This of course excludes some of the newer SATA3 SSDs that can saturate SATA2 in raid 0 or otherwise.

 

[Peter Ng]

There will be no difference in performance of data transfer when using a SATA2 HDD in a SATA2 or a SATA3 port.

Very few hard drives even saturate SATA2. So all these "SATA3" regular hard drives are a waste of money right now as there are no performance improvements. This of course excludes some of the newer SATA3 SSDs that can saturate SATA2 in raid 0 or otherwise.

Thanks very much for your answer, then, I put all the hard drives through the SATA3 cable & ports, since ASUS comes with the Black/White colour SATA3 cables with the board.

Regards,
Peter

 

[Rusting In Peace]

No problem Peter. Enjoy!