Mushkin Chronos

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No. You will still get the drive's rated IOPS even over SATA II, which is by far the largest benefit of an SSD. Going to SATA III will just increase the throughput, which has a much smaller effect on system responsiveness.

Just stick with SATA II. You'll eventually replace the computer or motherboard, which will carry with it an extra free boost to your SSD speed.

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No. You will still get the drive's rated IOPS even over SATA II, which is by far the largest benefit of an SSD. Going to SATA III will just increase the throughput, which has a much smaller effect on system responsiveness.

Just stick with SATA II. You'll eventually replace the computer or motherboard, which will carry with it an extra free boost to your SSD speed.
 
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thedown side with using a pci card is your going to lose a slot and use or have to share another irq with something on the system board. also some of the low end cards may or may not allow you to boot from them. sometime mb bios dont have the boot from pci card feature too.