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How to take advantage of new SSD?

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Dustin587

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I recently purchased a SSD that's capable of 6gb/s. However, I found out my motherboard is only capable of 3gb/s.

A relative of mine told me I could purchase a PCI card of some sort that would allow me to upgrade to SATA III, allowing the full 6gb/s of my SSD. I am not sure exactly what to buy, but it seems that a controller card is what I might need.

What do I need to purchase in order to take advantage of my new SSD? I would rather not purchase an entirely new motherboard at this time.
 
You'll be fine in the meantime. I doubt you are regularly processing more than SATA II's limit of 300 MB/s. That's almost half a CD per second. Despite the benchmark differences between II and II, in real-life it'll equate to you saving less than a quarter of a second everyday. If you sneezed or mis-typed a URL, there goes all the time you hoped to save. 🙂
 
I guess it would depend on which SSD drive you purchased as depending on size, brand, etc. the performance greatly changes.

Sata II can carry enough bandwidth for most of us mere mortals 🙂

I doubt it would be worth the cost of a controller card to get the SSD on Sata III anyways.

Just download something like AS SSD or Crystal Diskmark and check your performance to see if your MB controller is giving it it's all.
 
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