It can be a little overwhelming but at the bottom they give their own recomendations. I personally have one of these: http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX33367
I have been very happy with it so far. On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Richard Carter <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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