SSD with Sata 2 (3 GB/s)

[Marreez]

I'm planning on upgrading from a normal hard drive to an SSD to have my Win 7 and a few applications on there. Although my motherboard doesn't have any Sata 3 (6GB/s) ports, only Sata 2 (3 GB/s) ports. From what i know, SSDs use almost the full bandwidth of Sata 3, at around 560MB/s.

So my question is, using an ssd on my Sata 2 ports will be slower, but is it still worth the change and will i notice a big enough improvement over a mechanical hard drive?

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Yes, it is worth the change.

Yes, you will notice a big improvement over a mechanical drive.

In very general terms a typical home user or casual gamer will not notice any difference in performance between a SATA 2 3Gb/s ssd and a SATA 3 6Gb/s ssd. A consumer would have to run synthetic benchmarks that grossly exaggerate minor differences in order to tell the difference. It would be different if the user was a rocket scientist.