Can someone explain the SATA III 6Gb/s? I know this isn't the read or the write speed...
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You can easily increase the speed of ANY SATA HDD you swap this for. Even if you have a SATA I port with a SATA I spinning HDD. Sure, this SSD drops to SATA I speed and will not be used to its full potential, but it can still increase the speed of an old computer running at SATA I.Using these drives in a SATA III port is not a requirement, it's just preferred if you want the maximum speed this drive can give you.
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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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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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As I understand it that the maximum speed of the Interface between the computer and the device. Since the device is basically all Solid State electronics, as opposed to a traditional spinning rust HD, the 6gb/sec is actually closed to a true read/write speed than you might imagine. note that that's 6gb ie BITS not BYTES... IE 8 b's per byte plus handshaking overhead but is a still twice that of tradition SATA which is only 3gb/sec max.
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Do a wikipedia search on it. It is the communication speed in bits and not bytes.
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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.
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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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See: http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8142/~/difference-between-sata-i,-sata-ii-and-sata-iii "SATA III specifications provide backward compatibility to function on SATA I and SATA II ports. However, the maximum speed of the drive will be slower due to the lower speed limitations of the port." SATA II drive speed is 3GB/s, so you won't get the full SATA III speed throughput by using this cable.
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It supports all the way up to SATA III 6.0Gb/s, and I'm pretty sure SATA is backwards compatible (to SATA I and SATA II).
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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. It is comparable with all SATA drives. You just wouldn't be able to take advantage of the speeds of SATA III obviously.
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It is compatible with SATA III. However you will never reach those speeds with conventional hard drives.
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If you have a sata cable already just use that. there's no difference between regular sata cables and sata 6gb/sec cables other than the clip on the 6gb/sec cables.
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As Richard says, it is supposed to work but in my experience it does not even for SATA II. For SATA III, if it worked at all and that is very unlikely, it will be so slow, you might as well write the data by hand.
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Thanks for your information. I did also find out that there's a sata port intended for an optical drive. If so, then I can mount the SSD in that bay and still have all 4 bays for data. Now - does anybody know if the BIOS can handle 3TB drives without repartitioning?
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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
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It does support sata III so yes it supports 6Gb/s however (and you prob already know this) the bottleneck of any burner is the spin speed as cd media pretty much flies apart much higher than I think 40x and so you won't see much better write and read transfer rated than a sata 2 hdd really. But that's reality. This drive is the best drive you can buy and it flat out works 100% every time.
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It's gonna be a little slower that sata3 but still fast, works pretty good on mine laptop.
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This enclosure seems to have lower read/write speeds than a # of other enclosures interfaces that explicitly state they support SATA III, so my guess is it does *not* support SATA III speeds. This appears to be confirmed by Anker in their response to my review where they say it's only 'compatible with SATA III': (http://www.amazon.com/review/R1ZD7X6XFODRSW/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm) FYI, here are some speeds in MB/s, with an Intel 330 120GB SSD: Anker USB 3.0/eSATA enclosure (this enclosure): 176.4/134.2 Seagate GoFlex Slim USB 3.0 interface: 250.5/152.5 SIIG 6Gb/s SATA to USB 3.0: 257.9/149.6 Newer Technology Voyager S3: 396.1/136.4 The Anker is the slowest of the bunch. The last 3 all supposedly support SATA III, but clearly the Voyager S3 is the fastest. The SIIG has the ASMedia 1051e chipset (supposed to be very fast), so I'm not sure what, in the end, causes the S3 to have dramatically higher read speeds. Different chipset? Updated firmware?
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Unfortunately non-software that I have can test it and the hardware itself does not seems to be different physically but I will recommend it as it works good for burning at 6x and the time was 16 min as expected for this device class and if an optical go up from 16x then you maybe need SATA3 but currently it seems does not applies [16 576 Mbit/s 72 MB/s] because SATA 2 3Gb/s is good up to ~ 290MB/s read and write vs. 6Gb/s is good up to ~ 600mb/s read / write. OS Driver Description - ASUS BW-16D1HT SCSI Cd-Rom Device. So I just hope this information help you to decide.
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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 do not think this enclosure supports SATA III, as an Anker representative told me: "The speed is restricted by the chipset as well. This Uspeed enclosure supports up to SATA 2 perfectly but only compatible with SATA 3. While, the one you compared [SIIG SATA 6Gbps to USB 3.0 enclosure] seems to be with updated chipset to compatible with 6Gb/s."FYI, here are some speeds in MB/s, with an Intel 330 120GB SSD:Anker USB 3.0/eSATA enclosure (this enclosure): 176.4/134.2Seagate GoFlex Slim USB 3.0 interface: 250.5/152.5SIIG 6Gb/s SATA to USB 3.0: 257.9/149.6Newer Technology Voyager S3: 396.1/136.4The Anker is the slowest of the bunch. I do not think this enclosure supports SATA III, as an Anker representative told me: "The speed is restricted by the chipset as well. This Uspeed enclosure supports up to SATA 2 perfectly but only compatible with SATA 3. While, the one you compared [SIIG SATA 6Gbps to USB 3.0 enclosure] seems to be with updated chipset to compatible with 6Gb/s."FYI, here are some speeds in MB/s, with an Intel 330 120GB SSD:Anker USB 3.0/eSATA enclosure (this enclosure): 176.4/134.2Seagate GoFlex Slim USB 3.0 interface: 250.5/152.5SIIG 6Gb/s SATA to USB 3.0:... » Read More I do not think this enclosure supports SATA III, as an Anker representative told me: "The speed is restricted by the chipset as well. This Uspeed enclosure supports up to SATA 2 perfectly but only compatible with SATA 3. While, the one you compared [SIIG SATA 6Gbps to USB 3.0 enclosure] seems to be with updated chipset to compatible with 6Gb/s."FYI, here are some speeds in MB/s, with an Intel 330 120GB SSD:Anker USB 3.0/eSATA enclosure (this enclosure): 176.4/134.2Seagate GoFlex Slim USB 3.0 interface: 250.5/152.5SIIG 6Gb/s SATA to USB 3.0: 257.9/149.6Newer Technology Voyager S3: 396.1/136.4The Anker is the slowest of the bunch. « Show Less