Hot swap bays and 6 mn/ds drives

[GJCornish]

I was told that hot swap bays will cut my drive speed in half. I bought a Thermaltake Level 210 Snow Edition case that has 5 hot swap bays. and 3 spare 5.25 inch bays.

I have three 6 gb/s drives and have read that most 3 gbps cables transfer data every bit as fast as 6 gbps cables in tests. Would how the drives are cabled or bay construction slow drives down or am I being mislead?

 

[Elixer]

I was told that hot swap bays will cut my drive speed in half. I bought a Thermaltake Level 210 Snow Edition case that has 5 hot swap bays. and 3 spare 5.25 inch bays.

I have three 6 gb/s drives and have read that most 3 gbps cables transfer data every bit as fast as 6 gbps cables in tests. Would how the drives are cabled or bay construction slow drives down or am I being mislead?

Where did you read this ?
If the hot swap bays are dedicated back planes (and that case has them), then, no, no speed loss. That just means, you need 1 SATA cable for each HD.
As for having 6 Gb/s drives versus 3Gb/s, they can't even get 1.5 Gb/s, unless you start RAIDing them. SSDs are a different story, some of them are maxing out 6Gb/s.

 

[Smoblikat]

If its merely a passthrough then whatever speed is on the motherboard side is what you get on the drive side. Any SATA cable will do 6gb/s, though I usually use ones that look better built for 6gb/s.

 

[Auric]

The primary difference is stricter tolerance so you may get away with a longer cable or inadequate shielding (esp. using internal cable externally rather than eSATA) with 3G but less likely with 6G.