Is this SATA III, or SATA II or SATA ?
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I wondered the same thing when I bought it since I wanted to be certain of this. The manufacturer said it was "compatible" with SATA III, but that does not necessarily mean anything. The external interface is USB 3.0 and limtied to 5Gbits/sec max throughput, of course. Anyway, after testing with a fast 3.5" 7200 disk drive, I came to the conclusion that the drive internally is running at max performance for its platter write speeds - as you can see from my reported review. Unless I were to check with an SSD, I would not be certain of the interface, but my educated guess is that it is is an internal SATA III interface ... hope that helps! I wondered the same thing when I bought it since I wanted to be certain of this. The manufacturer said it was "compatible" with SATA III, but that does not necessarily mean anything. The external interface is USB 3.0 and limtied to 5Gbits/sec max throughput, of course. Anyway, after testing with a fast 3.5" 7200 disk drive, I came to the conclusion that the drive internally is running at max performance for its platter write speeds - as you can see from my reported review. Unless I were to check with an SSD, I would not be certain of the interface, but my educated guess is... » Read More I wondered the same thing when I bought it since I wanted to be certain of this. The manufacturer said it was "compatible" with SATA III, but that does not necessarily mean anything. The external interface is USB 3.0 and limtied to 5Gbits/sec max throughput, of course. Anyway, after testing with a fast 3.5" 7200 disk drive, I came to the conclusion that the drive internally is running at max performance for its platter write speeds - as you can see from my reported review. Unless I were to check with an SSD, I would not be certain of the interface, but my educated guess is that it is is an internal SATA III interface ... hope that helps! « Show Less
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I wondered the same thing when I bought it since I wanted to be certain of this. The manufacturer said it was "compatible" with SATA III, but that does not necessarily mean anything. The external interface is USB 3.0 and limtied to 5Gbits/sec max throughput, of course. Anyway, after testing with a fast 3.5" 7200 disk drive, I came to the conclusion that the drive internally is running at max performance for its platter write speeds - as you can see from my reported review. Unless I were to check with an SSD, I would not be certain of the interface, but my educated guess is that it is is an internal SATA III interface ... hope that helps!
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Recently bought this and yes, its a sata III USB 3.0, backwards compatible with sata I and II and transfer rate for 3.0 is about 5gb as for 2.0 it will do 480mb
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Yes, it is a 3.5" SATA drive. I have one of them, and it has been a good external drive.
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It's a typo on Amazon. The drive is SATA III. Hardly any drive are SATA III anymore. Click here -> http://www.wdc.com/global/products/specs/?driveID=1049&language;=1
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Yes, SATA 3 is designed to work with SATA II, although at SATA II speeds. Either way it will still be faster than a normal magnetic drive. I'm using this specific SSD on a evga x58 motherboard with SATA II and it works fine. I also tried a Corsair Neuron GTX on the same motherboard and it runs perfectly with Windows 7. Just be sure to check with your motherboard vendor regarding SATA mode (AHCI, IDE or mixed) as you may have to update your BIOS to get it to work. Good luck!
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It should work. Most Sata 3 will be backward compatible with sata2, which runs only 3G/s not 6G/s.
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sata is sata, doesn't matter if it is sata3 or sata2, all those only matter to things like hard drive that needs that much bandwidth to start with. sata3 is over kill, hdd can't function up to that speed anyways, unless you are connecting to a high end SSD.
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it's just a spec:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#SATA_revision_3.0_-_6_Gbit.2Fs_-_600_MB.2Fsread on...
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According to http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/pcs/NP550P7C-T01US-specs, Sata-II only.
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It is a standard SATA connector. I added an SSD to mine first thing. Warning: This will void the warranty.
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This card supports sata 3, for the drives that are plugged into it. If the drive is plugged into your motherboard it will remain sata1 if it's plugged into the card it will be sata 3
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Most SATA3 devices are compatible with SATA1 and SATA2. Definitely research, but from experience most likely you're fine.
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Yes, the mSATA SSD is SATA III. Regarding the brand, it could be A-DATA or other 1st tier brand.In MSI website they doesn't release such information.
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I do not know. Tom's Hardware says that SATA III only mkea a difference with SDD drives. If that is tru you will not see any difference with a SATA II enclosure. SATA II enclosures are hard to find.
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SATA version 3, as in 6Gbps. All four of the ports on this board are SATA version 3.
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yes it will work on sata 2 & 3 and its backward compatible means it will go back from 3 to 2 . you will like it
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SATA, SATA2 and SATA3 all have the same physical pin layout. Each version represents the next level in serial ATA throughput. You can plug in a SATA 2 drive into a SATA port on a computer and it will run at SATA speed.