"High Performance Transfer Rate up to 6Gbps for SAS &amp; 3Gbps for SATA (SSD)". Does this mean it will bottleneck a 6Gbps SSD?
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Most likely not. 3GBPS was the highest speed SATA tested at the time this product review was composed. The electrical interface is identical; the connectors in this cage are not junk. Only a big bunch of mediocre cables could slow you down here. If you do not have the RAID controller yet, also consider IOfusion's PCIe bus flash, removing the SATA bottleneck.
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I was not able to achieve full SATA 3 speeds with mine. I'm not sure what the reason is, but it is possible that other expansion cards on the system are using all available PCI-e lanes. YMMV
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I have one of these set up with standard drives and am able to run two VMs at the same time easily. I assume that SSDs would make it a bit faster though.
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SATA is backwards compatible so it should be fine. In fact, if you are replacing a plater drive it should be faster even with the 1.5 Gb/sec bottleneck.
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The speed of a single drive is irrelevant when it's paired up with other drives, AND it's in an NAS. The bottleneck will always be the bus, not the drive.
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After reading the packaging & documentation the adapter comes with, it'll max out @ 3 gb/s speeds on HDD's and SSD's. No 6 gb/s speeds on this adapter.That being said, I still think it's a great product.
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Cables actually do make a difference, as cables also mean protocols. The question of what the internal chipset supports in terms of transfer speeds is not the only relevant issue. Host bus speed matters. Run over an eSATA connection, the device will have less throughput available than USB 3.0 allows for, because eSATA isn't designed for 6Gbps. USB 3.0 will be the fastest connection (while still slower in this implementation than SATA3), followed by eSATA at roughly SATA2 speeds, followed by legacy USB 2.0 over the USB 3.0 cable.
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Afraid not, the manufactures specs clearly state "Note: The card slots into an x4 lane however the interface in limited to x2 specifications". Which means the x4 card is only using 2 lanes, limiting throughput to 500MB/s max, just shy of 600MB/s for full SATA3. Not unusual for SATA cards. The performance, non-the-less, is remarkable, and if you need the card to get more SATA ports, it's a small compromise. If you are doing it to utilize the caching function of the Hyper-Duo mode, you'll not realize max performance, but will see better performance than with a HDD, so it's still worth it.
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You should be fine with this one. Sata II runs at 3.0 GBps and Sata runs at 1.5 GBps. Do some research on Google but you will more than likely be more than satisfied.
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You have a more recent motherboard than I do by two years. Perhaps I was lucky on my P55 that the components and bus speed performed near the rated speed of the Samsung Pro 840 SSD. My P55 board worked. As I remember back the faster protocol had to be enabled that supports SATAIII speeds. I can only gasp as straws for your experience. Many SSDs are rated at the speed you are experiencing. It's not going to get any faster than the slowest component. Good luck!
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If it (Mini Pro) is connected to a 6Gbit eSata port & the internal SSD is connected to a 6Gbit internal port, then the transfer rate will be equal to the slower of the two SSD's transfer rate.
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Probably because it doesn't really matter. SATA 6 Gb/s is just marketing for a mechanical drive. No mechanical HDD can even saturate the SATA 3 Gb/s spec.
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Yes. And transfer rate is fast if the other drive is also 3.0. If not then it will be limited to the transfer speed of the drive
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I'm looking at the back cover of mine here, and it says "No sacrifice on the mSATA performance", "Fully compatible with Sata 2.6", "Supports ATA/ATAP-7 specification" and "Supports dual power voltages: 1.8 and 3.3V" ... sooo I'm not sure if that helps... but it's something! There is no signal converter chip on this device... just a power supply or rectifier. It's pretty much just 1 to 1 pass thru on the pinouts of the mSata format to the Sata connector, so it should run at 6Gb/s.
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If you are going to get a 2.5 drive, go with the 6.0mbps transfer rate!! or you will not get the full functionallity that comes with having the solid state portion of the drive. It requires you to be able to set the drive up as ACHI in the BIOS, or else it will just function like any other 3.0mbps hard drive. I have 3 Seagate 500 Hybrids in a raid with each drive partitioned in half. giving me a theoretical 6 drives at 250 gb per drive. I like having my games on their own partitions, for faster read times, and my startups are under 2 mins.
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Not 100% sure but SATA III (revision 3.x) interface, formally known as SATA 6Gb/s, is a third generation SATA interface running at 6.0Gb/s. The bandwidth throughput, which is supported by the interface, is up to 600MB/s. This interface is backwards compatible with SATA 3 Gb/s interface. This particular device claims a transfer rate up to 480Mbps, leading me to believe its a III
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Previous helpers don't understand the question, SATA 3 6GB/S is a data cable.... You don't need to buy any special power cable, recent power supply, come with these connectors. Wouldn't be healthy for your new HDD, if you are planning to use an old or low quality power supply