SSD SATA 3

[erty176]

I was wondering, would it be worth it to get an ssd with a laptop that has only a SATA 3 connection? It would be upgrading from a 250gb 7,200 rpm drive.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Erty

[TheRetiredSlave]

SATA III (6 Gbps) is what you'll want if you're using an SSD. 

 

SATA II (3 Gbps) is not enough for an SSD, so it will be bottlenecked.. It still will be faster than a HDD, but it won't be as fast as it could be with SATA III.

 

In my opinion, upgrading to an SSD makes sense even if you're using SATA II, because the only thing that will be limited is the maximum sequential speeds. Most of the time you'll be limited by the random read/write speeds which won't really affected by the slower interface.

[LukaP]

Sata 3 is the newest.

Unless you mean sata 3gb/s.

In that case. Yes. Yes so much

[Deddie]

I have a computer that is supposed to have SATA 3gb/s but I only get SATA 1.5gb/s speed out of and a SSD is still worth it there.

[mvitkun]

I was wondering, would it be worth it to get an ssd with a laptop that has only a SATA 3 connection? It would be upgrading from a 250gb 7,200 rpm drive.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Erty

I'd say it's still worth it.

 

While the SSD will lose some of it's sequential read and write speed due to the ~380MB limit on the SATA II interface it will still perform much better than any hard drive in random operations,and that's where the huge benefit lies.

Because while the 500MB/s read and write speeds are focused on by their marketing teams, the random speeds are 5-10x faster than a HDD's,and a majority of the things you do on a daily basis are random,not sequential.

[flibberdipper]

It will  be worth it.

[mgsstar]

I would say that its worth it because it will still be faster than a regular HDD.

[hojnikb]

even on sata I system, ssd makes a whole lot of difference.