What kind of speed would I see with this if it was paired with a Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5-Inch SATA III ?
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In reading and writing speeds much higher than the orignal HD, limited of course by the processor and memory. Remember to remove the jumper for it to function as the primary disk.
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You should expect to see speeds slower than SATA I (1.5 Gb/s = 150 MiB/s without allowing for overhead), due to the bandwidth of the IDE/PATA interface. Combine this with a lack of NCQ or AHCI support in the PATA specification, and while your speed will be much faster than the old HDDs (or even SSDs) that operated on IDE/PATA, it will be nowhere near the rated speeds for any modern SSD.
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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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It should. My 750gb evo worked. But, be warned that you wont get near sata 3 speed from this enclosure via usb 3. Look at the Minipro usb 3 enclosure instead, it will give you faster performance for a ssd.
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Well..the card is capable but I think your real-world speeds are going to be limited by your motherboard/processor architecture. Bought this controller to replace a SATA I on an old Xeon-based machine that I use for a file server. Had replaced a couple of Seagate drives on my JBOD array with some shiny new WD Blues, and the old SATA I controller couldn't handle the new drives. This one works like a champ. Here's what I get for speed: $ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdb|grep -i speed * Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s) * Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s) * Gen3 signaling speed (6.0Gb/s) $ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 956 MB in 2.00 seconds = 478.08 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 332 MB in 3.01 seconds = 110.19 MB/sec $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/shared/output.img bs=8k count=256k 262144+0 records in 262144+0 records out 2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 38.9774 s, 55.1 MB/s
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It will work with both and according to Tom's Hardware bench testing you will not notice the difference in speed in normal use between 3 GBps and 6 GBps SATA.
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I think this indicates the type of SATA interface speed. There's SATA I (1.5GB/s), SATA II (3.0GB/s), and SATA III (6.0GB/s). The higher the SATA interface, the greater the potential bandwidth throughput it can support.
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It all depends on your motherboard and there are many flavors of 2.0. I get SATA 1 speeds using this board in an old dell dimension 8400 (from 2003). I'm pretty sure it is MB limited.
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Yes, however the speed results will be limited to which speed sata your motherboard supports. Still a major upgrade over regular mechanical hds though. Operating system startup time and folder access will be considerably faster.
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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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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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ya i expected as much too, but it is a USB 2.0 speed for the enclosure, how ever the SSD is super fast when it's hoked by a SATA cable as an internal HDD.
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For budget best value builds I recommend the use of Samsung Evo SSD ( read=520mb/s write=520mb/s ) If you want faster speed use a Samsung SM951 SSD with PCIe adapter ( read=1700mb/s write=1700mb/s ).Or you can spend more money and put an Intel 750 PCIe SSD in it.
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From my understanding of sata cables they are all the same. It is the transmission protocol that is different. That being said, this thing is totally passive. It just is a smaller configuration of the same connection. I would be looking at whether your ssd actually reaches 6gbps speeds. Most don't come close- that's a potential 750 Mb/sec. The bottle necks on these things have a lot more to do with the ssd's controller than the actual cable itself.
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SATA 1.5 Gbit/s and SATA 6 Gbit/s are compatible with each other. Most devices which are only SATA 1.5 Gbit/s can connect with devices that are SATA 6 Gbit/s, and vice-versa, though SATA 1.5 Gbit/s devices only connect with SATA 6 Gbit/s devices at the slower 1.5 Gbit/s speed. SATA 3 Gbit/s and SATA 6 Gbit/s are compatible with each other. Most devices which are only SATA 3 Gbit/s can connect with devices that are SATA 6 Gbit/s, and vice-versa, though SATA 3 Gbit/s devices only connect with SATA 6 Gbit/s devices at the slower 3 Gbit/s speed. That being said, this cable allows you to connect your SSD drive to a USB 3 port on your computer and transfer data at a higher rate. However, if your computer has only USB 2 ports, then the max transfer rate will be at the lower USB 2 level capability.
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I wish I could give you a good answer on this, but I installed it in a an older puter with an older sata3 buss, and ahci wasnt even an option in the bios. that being said, the customer is very happy with it said her puter has never been faster...
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yes its sata III compatible but it can only run at sata II speeds. I instaled a sata III ssd and my read speads are 260mbps but on sata III motherboard it can do about 550mbps, almost double. but I haven't seen a laptop that supports sata III yet, only desktops.
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It should work. Most Sata 3 will be backward compatible with sata2, which runs only 3G/s not 6G/s.