Hi Gustin, Thanks for the tip and for the link. I'll study it carefully before I go to Memory Express.
Robin On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Gustin Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > I put a SATA III SSD into my laptop without issue (my laptop is 3+ years > old and only supports SATA II). The only difference you should see is a > performance cap. SATA II tops out at 3 gigabit while the drive I bought is > capable of much more. I was still able to get 250 megabytes per second of > writes on my laptop with this drive. > > There is also more to the performance than the SATA controller and drive > so do not just assume the drive is faulty if you are not getting the > performance you might expect. > > For a really good SSD breakdown I highly recommend the following link: > http://www.pcper.com/ssd > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Jamie Furtner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> SATA III is backwards compatible with SATA and SATA 2 and is physically >> compatible with older cables and plugs. You won't get as good performance >> out of it as is possible with a SATA 3 controller of course - bandwidth of >> SATA1 is 150 MByte/s, 2 is 300 MByte/s and 3 is 600 MByte/s. From what I've >> been able to find out, your controller supports SATA2 so you'll see >> transfers at up to 300 MByte/s. >> >> In general, it will work fine with the controller. >> >> Jamie >> >> >> On 2012-05-23 11:38 AM, Richard Carter wrote: >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> I am planning to add a 128GB SSD to my desktop PC which has a >> SB700/SB800 SATA controller [AHCI mode]. Then I'll install ubuntu 12.04 on >> the SSD. The folks at ubuntu said that "any SSD will be fine". But I >> note that SSDs for sale at Memory Express are designated as "SATA III" so >> I'm concerned that there may be a mismatch between an SSD which is SATA III >> and my controller. I would appreciate any advice. >> >> Robin >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing >> [email protected]http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> >> >> -- >> Jamie Furtner <[email protected]> <[email protected]> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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