Sata 3 SSD in a Sata 2 mainboard will there be noticable difference in game load time

[john5220]

What you guys think?

If I put a sata 3 ssd like a crucial MX 500 256GB in a SATA 2 mainboard

Is there going to be noticable difference loading those long load time levels in Battlefield 3 and 4? and DayZ?

 

[lavaheadache]

mx 500 256 gb... holy crap! A video card with 256 gb... I need one of those for my new 48:9 15k screen.

wrong forum bud.

 

[stahlhart]

Moving to Memory and Storage forum.
-- stahlhart

 

[Blastman]

Just barely noticeable

Guild Wars 2 Loading Screen Test …

Load times …Samsung 830 256GB on …

SATA3 … 9.0s
SATA2 … 11.9s
500GB HDD … 32.4s

 

[mikeymikec]

Is there going to be noticable difference loading those long load time levels in Battlefield 3 and 4? and DayZ?

Difference between what and what? Presumably you mean 'difference between a HDD and an SSD only connected to a SATA 3Gbps port', if so, yes, as even a brand-new WD Black tops out at about 180MB/sec if everything is in its favour, a decent SSD will do probably do something like 250/280MB/sec, maybe more when connected to a SATA 3Gbps port. An older HDD might do less than 100MB/sec.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Difference between what and what? Presumably you mean 'difference between a HDD and an SSD only connected to a SATA 3Gbps port', if so, yes, as even a brand-new WD Black tops out at about 180MB/sec if everything is in its favour, a decent SSD will do probably do something like 250/280MB/sec, maybe more when connected to a SATA 3Gbps port.

And it's not even about sustained/peak transfer bandwidth, any decent SSD would absolutely destroy any HDD in latency and access time which matters most in general usage. SATA 2/3 is almost irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

 

[john5220]

I mean differenece between both identical SSD on a sata 2 and sata 3 port.

 

[mikeymikec]

Based on the assumption that the SATA 3Gbps and 6Gbps ports are reasonably decent ones (some 6Gbps controllers are rubbish relatively speaking) I don't know that exact SSD's capabilities, but my Samsung 840 PRO pushes 550MB/sec. On a 3Gbps port it would probably do ~280MB/sec, maybe a bit more. Blastman's figures sound about right.

I certainly wouldn't change boards purely to get SATA 6Gbps unless I knew my use of it was going to routinely take advantage of that extra speed and that I'd notice.

 

[h9826790]

In my own experience, the answer is NO.

 

[tweakboy]

Yes a BIG difference.... from 3G to 6G ,,, twice as fast. But workoing with files etc it will be instant and amazing.