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Do 5400-RPM Hard Drives need Sata-3 connection?

AdmiralWen
By AdmiralWen
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SSDs obviously benefit from a Sata-3 6 Gbps connection, but will a traditional 5400-RPM hard drive gain any benefit from being connected to a Sata-3 port as opposed to a Sata-2 port?

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Depends on Read/ Write speeds more than the RPMs of the drive.

 

*To further clarify: Sata2 has a theoretical maximum of 300MB/s which is far higher than most mechanical drives so it should be fine.

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No definitely not

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