Description says max speed=625MB/s, is this right? Confused b/c it only says explictly that it supports SATA II (300MB/s). Can confirm with SSD?
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Not sure what you want to know. I have used it to clone my new SSD from my old hard drive. The important thing is that you have a computer hard drive that has a SATA connection. The adapter doesn't care if it is SATA or SATA II connection. The reason I bought this adapter was because it was USB III, which is much faster than USB II. Your computer must have a USB III port on your computer to take advantage of the extra speed, however should be backwards compatible with USB II. Hope this helps.
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that depends on you mother board...raid x is raid x ....but sata3 is way faster then 1 or 2 ... then thers how meany drive you put in raid vs the max speed of you raid card what ever it is
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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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it will work but you wont see the full performance of the drives. you'll get between 300 and 375mb/s on sata 2.
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I was unable to locate any specifications for the system you identified.Make sure motherboard has Sata 3Gps or 6Gps (faster)If you are adding the SSD make sure you have an extra SATA port, cable and a place to mount SSD.** If the drive is configured properly on a 6Gps port, there will be a very notable performance boost over any HDD, this SSD will outperform any 10,000 rpm drive.
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The interface between the drive and the disk controller is SATA III and can run at a maximum speed of 6 billion bits per second. This is approximately 750 million bytes per second. Older SATA II controllers are capable of 3 billion bits per second, or 375 million bytes per second. Why is this important? Because this particular drive can do 520 million bytes per second, so the drive cannot run at full speed on a SATA II controller. It will work, but it will be slower. It must be used on a SATA III controller to allow the drive to run at full speed.Please note your CPU, bus and motherboard must also be fast enough to get this speed. Putting a cheap SATA III controller in an old computer won't do it. The interface between the drive and the disk controller is SATA III and can run at a maximum speed of 6 billion bits per second. This is approximately 750 million bytes per second. Older SATA II controllers are capable of 3 billion bits per second, or 375 million bytes per second. Why is this important? Because this particular drive can do 520 million bytes per second, so the drive cannot run at full speed on a SATA II controller. It will work, but it will be slower. It must be used on a SATA III controller to allow the drive to run at full speed.Please note your CPU, bus and... » Read More The interface between the drive and the disk controller is SATA III and can run at a maximum speed of 6 billion bits per second. This is approximately 750 million bytes per second. Older SATA II controllers are capable of 3 billion bits per second, or 375 million bytes per second. Why is this important? Because this particular drive can do 520 million bytes per second, so the drive cannot run at full speed on a SATA II controller. It will work, but it will be slower. It must be used on a SATA III controller to allow the drive to run at full speed.Please note your CPU, bus and motherboard must also be fast enough to get this speed. Putting a cheap SATA III controller in an old computer won't do it. « Show Less
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To be honest with you, IDE to SATA 3 - why? That IDE interface is sooooooo slow it would bottle neck the speed poential of this SSD drastically. I question SATA1 being used with SSD. Time to upgrade the PC.
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I have not had any problems with this ssd.And I did research on it as well according to my findings it is the fastest drive for the buck.Check Tom's hardware for the publication.
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Not that I'm aware of, but for $3.00 even if it only SATA 2 it does 3bg/s in a SATA 3 system, with two cables for $1.50 ea is a super deal. I am having no problems with mine on a Amd 630 x4 system, 64 bit win 7, 2.8ghz/ea processor, using SATA 2.
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Hello, I'm Jewel with Kingston Technical Support, here to answer your question. That is not correct. The SSD like other internal drives is not operating system specific and will function in systems with SATA3 or SATA2 connections. What is operating system specific is the Acronis TruImage Cloning software included in the bundle package. New current version that is shipping is compatible with Windows 8/8.1. For any further assistance, please call us at 1-800-435-0640 (USA and Canada only) M - F 6am - 6pm PT and I or another available Technician will assist you.Thank you for selecting Kingston as your upgrade partner. Hello, I'm Jewel with Kingston Technical Support, here to answer your question. That is not correct. The SSD like other internal drives is not operating system specific and will function in systems with SATA3 or SATA2 connections. What is operating system specific is the Acronis TruImage Cloning software included in the bundle package. New current version that is shipping is compatible with Windows 8/8.1. For any further assistance, please call us at 1-800-435-0640 (USA and Canada only) M - F 6am - 6pm PT and I or another available Technician will assist you.Thank you for... » Read More Hello, I'm Jewel with Kingston Technical Support, here to answer your question. That is not correct. The SSD like other internal drives is not operating system specific and will function in systems with SATA3 or SATA2 connections. What is operating system specific is the Acronis TruImage Cloning software included in the bundle package. New current version that is shipping is compatible with Windows 8/8.1. For any further assistance, please call us at 1-800-435-0640 (USA and Canada only) M - F 6am - 6pm PT and I or another available Technician will assist you.Thank you for selecting Kingston as your upgrade partner. « Show Less
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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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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, also known as SATA II. In other words, your motherboard will address the drive, but you won't benefit from the increased speed capability of this strong WD hard drive. One solution is to buy a Rosewill RC-227 PCI-Express 2.0 SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card. Of course, your motherboard must have a PCI-e x1 slot available. A $19 solution..
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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 don't know the speeds offhand but it's plenty fast! I've successfully used it in a M.2 to 2.5 SATA adapter/enclosure.
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That compatibility is based on the interface. I believe this MB has a SATA3 3Gb/s ports. Why a 10k rpm drive versus an SSD?
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I have SAMSUNG SSDs on both this board and connected directly to the motherboard. There is little difference in read speeds between them so the card doesn't seem to be a limiting factor. Best I can get with either is around 3.5 GB/S. I think your expectation that you can achieve 6GB/s on a sustained basis is probably unrealistic but I am not an expert here.
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Speed wise they're close 600Mb/s for SATA 3, and 625MB/s for USB 3, but they're not really comparable. The SATA speeds are for conventional HDD, and the USB speed would be for SSDs.