Thread: can SSD SATA3 work on SATA 2?
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Old 30-06-2014, 17:51   #5
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Re: can SSD SATA3 work on SATA 2?
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Originally Posted by Qtx View Post
You won't get the full sata 3 speed on a sata 2 interface but you will still get an improvement in speed using any SSD if it is replacing a normal disk drive.

If the sata 3 drive is a similar price to a sata 2 or you plan to upgrade hardware in the future, then no reason not to get the sata 3 based ssd.
Agreed.

An SSD is in most cases the single biggest and most effective component to upgrade in any machine, even if capped to SATA2/SATA1 speeds. The main advantage comes from near-zero seek times, not the sequential throughput - getting 300MB/sec or so is easy with just two hard drives in R0. But such a solution won't be nearly as fast in real use as even a 150MB/sec SSD.
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