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can I connect WD hard drive 6 gb/s on 3 gb/s sata on motherboard?

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Yes. All SATA generations are compatible with each other. Same goes with PCIe. PCIe 3.0 cards will work in PCIe 2.0 and 1.1 slots, and vice versa.

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can I connect WD hard drive 6 gb/s on 3 gb/s sata on motherboard?

 

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Yeah, but the hard drive would obviously perform at the 3gb/s the SATA port has.

Any reasons you are not connecting it to a 'faster' port? No room for it? No faster ports?

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Yeah, but the hard drive would obviously perform at the 3gb/s the SATA port has.

Any reasons you are not connecting it to a 'faster' port? No room for it? No faster ports?

It doesn't even matter really. Hard drives will not saturate a SATAII port, and some will barely saturate a SATAI port.

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My brother wants to buy a new hard drive, but he has 3gb/s on motherboard, so... I dont have problems with that on my pc

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Yeah, but the hard drive would obviously perform at the 3gb/s the SATA port has.

Any reasons you are not connecting it to a 'faster' port? No room for it? No faster ports?

It isn't relevant. Sata ii (sata3) caps out at around 400MB/s which is way above what hdds can drive.

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hi folks

can I connect WD hard drive 6 gb/s on 3 gb/s sata on motherboard?

 

Hey there Cucumber,
 
Current HDDs can't really saturate SATA3's (6Gb/s) or even SATA2's (3Gb/s) limitation of 750MB/s and 375MB/s respectively. It shouldn't really matter to which port you'd connect the drive in terms of speed or performance. :) I'd check the drive's spec sheet and see how fast the drive itself works. Some won't even utilize the full potential even of SATA1 (1Gb/s) which is 187.5MB/s. :)
What's the drive that you have?
 
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Hey there Cucumber,
 
Current HDDs can't really saturate SATA3's (6Gb/s) or even SATA2's (3Gb/s) limitation of 750MB/s and 375MB/s respectively. It shouldn't really matter to which port you'd connect the drive in terms of speed or performance. :) I'd check the drive's spec sheet and see how fast the drive itself works. Some won't even utilize the full potential even of SATA1 (1Gb/s) which is 187.5MB/s. :)
What's the drive that you have?
 
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I dont have problem with that, but my brother has. He buy Western Digital WD10EZEX 1.0TB 7200 rpm, and he have motherboard Asus FM1 A55-m le. why?

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I dont have problem with that, but my brother has. He buy Western Digital WD10EZEX 1.0TB 7200 rpm, and he have motherboard Asus FM1 A55-m le. why?

 

The drive that your brother has, WD Blue, caps its speed up to around 150MB/s which is well below the SATA2's (3Gb/s) speed limit of 375MB/s and should work at its full potential. :) Here's more info on WD Blue: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=JS7V5y
 
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Hey there Cucumber,
 
Current HDDs can't really saturate SATA3's (6Gb/s) or even SATA2's (3Gb/s) limitation of 750MB/s and 375MB/s respectively. It shouldn't really matter to which port you'd connect the drive in terms of speed or performance. :) I'd check the drive's spec sheet and see how fast the drive itself works. Some won't even utilize the full potential even of SATA1 (1Gb/s) which is 187.5MB/s. :)
What's the drive that you have?
 
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So this is a little bit irrelevant to the actual discussion but it is an issue we need to bring up more. SATA3 in the market place is SATA II (3Gb/s), while SATA III is labeled almost exclusively as SATA6 (6gb/s). It is quite obvious which standard SATA6 and SATA II refer to, but due to the speed/generation labeling, it is important to keep SATA3 and SATA III labeled in different manners.

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This is exactly why I always list the transfer speed limitations next to the generation number both in Gb/s and in MB/s. :) 
There are many places where SATA I is referred to as SATA1 and so on, so I try to keep it as clear and visible as possible. If it's better to use SATA I instead of SATA1 I will start labeling them like that. :)
 
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This is exactly why I always list the transfer speed limitations next to the generation number both in Gb/s and in MB/s. :)
There are many places where SATA I is referred to as SATA1 and so on, so I try to keep it as clear and visible as possible. If it's better to use SATA I instead of SATA1 I will start labeling them like that. :)
 
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Indeed, it was not a critique on you, but rather a comment on the issue itself. SATA I would probably make more sense in the keeping things constant perspective, although for first gen it's not really a big deal anymore. The only issue again is SATA3 vs SATA III.

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Indeed, it was not a critique on you, but rather a comment on the issue itself. SATA I would probably make more sense in the keeping things constant perspective, although for first gen it's not really a big deal anymore. The only issue again is SATA3 vs SATA III.

 

Yes, I was simply giving an example with the first gen. It does make more sense using SATAIII rather than SATA3, thank you for the comment, will take a note. :)

 

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