Today's fastest SSDs already bounce off the SATA 6Gb/s interface's throughput ceiling. Does a 3 Gb/s link kill the performance of those drives? We run a number of synthetic and real-world tests to assess the damage when you upgrade an older platform.
Results: 512 KB Random Read And Write Performance
Reading and writing 512 KB chunks of data is quite a bit quicker on the 6 Gb/s SATA interface than the 3 Gb/s port. Western Digital's VelociRaptor makes up some ground in the write test, but it still lags way behind even the bottlenecked SSD.
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