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SATA 6Gbps vs 3Gbps for Plex Server

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2canSAM

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HTPC that only does Plex locally and NetFlix, Hulu, Vudu, MLB. No heavy gaming, really no gaming at all 😉 1080P max content, not running any 4K. Most all my movies are ripped to around 4-8GB MKVs.
Current Specs are i5-2400, 8GB DDR3, HD6670. System works very well for what it does.
System Board only has two 6Gbps ports and four 3Gbps ports. My SSD in on a 6Gbps ports while my two 4TB storage drives are on 3Gbps.
Is there any real benefit to moving the Storage Drives to the 6Gbps ports? And the SSD to a 3Gbps. Not looking at having more then two drives for storage any time soon.
 
It shouldn't really matter, 5400RPM 4TB drives should at most hit around 150MB/s throughput, a mere 1.2gbps. SATA 2 (3gbps) should be fine.
 
Doesn't matter. My concern with a system old enough to have 3Gbps SATA is that it's probably not terribly power efficient to leave on all the time as a server.
 
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