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[Solved] Is SATA III compatible with my motherboard?

Forum Storage : SSD [Solved] Is SATA III compatible with my motherboard?

http://www.biostar-usa.com/app/en- [...] p?S_ID=445

That is my motherboard. I want to upgrade to this SSD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820233220

But I don't know whether or not it would be compatible. Help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance

Edit:
Also, could i just buy a small piece of hardware to make it compatible for the full 6gb/s? Such as a SATA controller card? (I'm looking into these things I'm just not 100% sure about everything)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] llFullInfo
Would that fix my issue?

Message edited by nythus on 02-11-2012 at 12:05:02 PM

Reply to nythus

The drive is backwards compatible with your motherboards SATA II controller so it will work limited by the SATA II interface. It is still a massive increase from a mechanical HDD, adding a card for SATA III will get you some increase over the SATA II but the PCIe X1 ver2.0 will not allow full SATA III speeds.
I personally would get the drive running it on the motherboards SATA II connection.

Reply to rolli59

Alright thanks for the help.
I just look at YouTube videos of people running SATA III SSDs and they're booting Windows in like 14 seconds and their applications nearly instantly. Will SATA II be a huge performance decrease from that?

Reply to nythus

Best answer

This just so happened to be recently covered here on Tom's. Short answer, you really won't be able to tell the different between SATA2 vs SATA3 in the real world tests.

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,3110.html

Message edited by mfleming001 on 02-11-2012 at 08:30:32 PM

Reply to mfleming001

Best answer selected by nythus.

Reply to nythus

You both helped me out equally. I'm just going to build a new computer. I selected mfleming as best answer because of the link, but rolli provided the answer to my original question. Thanks everyone

Reply to nythus