SSD for SATA II

[AlexWalters08]

Hello! I have a Dell Inspiron 11 series from late 2014, and I was looking to upgrade it, and add a SSD to it. However, it uses SATA II, so I want a SATA III SSD that has read/write speeds of around 400MB/s. I could put a 850 pro in for example, but the 500MB read/write will not go to use, as SATA II speeds of 375MB/s (3Gb/s) will bottleneck it. So I want an SSD that will not, or barely be bottlenecked by SATA II speeds so I don't feel cheated. Also because slower speed SSD are usually cheaper. 

[CalumGiff]

Hello! I have a Dell Inspiron 11 series from late 2014, and I was looking to upgrade it, and add a SSD to it. However, it uses SATA II, so I want a SATA III SSD that has read/write speeds of around 400MB/s. I could put a 850 pro in for example, but the 500MB read/write will not go to use, as SATA II speeds of 375MB/s (3Gb/s) will bottleneck it. So I want an SSD that will not, or barely be bottlenecked by SATA II speeds so I don't feel cheated. Also because slower speed SSD are usually cheaper. 

sata is backward compatible so just buy an ssd and plug it in, any ssd will do providing its a sata ssd.

[AlexWalters08]

sata is backward compatible so just buy an ssd and plug it in, any ssd will do providing its a sata ssd.

I am aware, but SATA II can not use any SSD read/write speeds over 375MB/s. So buying a high speed SATA III drive is pointless, as I won't be able to use the speed. So do you know of any SSDs that are SATA III with read/write speeds of around 375MB/s? @CalumGiff

[scottyseng]

Hello! I have a Dell Inspiron 11 series from late 2014, and I was looking to upgrade it, and add a SSD to it. However, it uses SATA II, so I want a SATA III SSD that has read/write speeds of around 400MB/s. I could put a 850 pro in for example, but the 500MB read/write will not go to use, as SATA II speeds of 375MB/s (3Gb/s) will bottleneck it. So I want an SSD that will not, or barely be bottlenecked by SATA II speeds so I don't feel cheated. Also because slower speed SSD are usually cheaper. 

 

Are you really sure the laptop uses SATA II? It seems very strange that a laptop from 2014 (No matter how cheap) would not be using SATA 3.

 

On the other hand, running a SSD that is faster is not a bad thing. Once that laptop dies, you can use that SSD for something else. Even my old Plextor M2P SSD from 2010 would be faster than SATA II. That drive gets 400MB/s at max. I would say just get a cheap Crucial drive and be happy.

[AlexWalters08]

Are you really sure the laptop uses SATA II? It seems very strange that a laptop from 2014 (No matter how cheap) would not be using SATA 3.

 

On the other hand, running a SSD that is faster is not a bad thing. Once that laptop dies, you can use that SSD for something else. Even my old Plextor M2P SSD from 2010 would be faster than SATA II. That drive gets 400MB/s at max. I would say just get a cheap Crucial drive and be happy.

The CPU only supports 3Gb/s speed