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chimmychunger
By chimmychunger
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Ok so i am getting a msi z77 mpower mobo and it only has 2 sata 3 connectors and that is fine becouse i am getting 1 hard drive and an ssd but what do i do if i add another ssd in the future. please help.

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Put the hard drive on a SATA2 connector to start off with - leaves your SATA3 one free. Honestly, I doubt you notice difference really on a mechanical drive between SATA2 and SATA3 exept if you are benchmarking. You could also buy a two port SATA3 PCIe card to if you really needed to.

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SATA2 for a normal hard drive is enough. But if you use a high rpm hard drive like the VelociRaptor from WD it is better to plug this in a SATA3 port.

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I don't think any harddrive can write and read fast enough to actually completely saturate the SATA 2 port.

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Oh you meant Data not Power, yeah you can use SATA 2 for the hard drive. 3Gb/s is still 375MB/s so it's more than enough bandwidth for your hard drive.

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Put the hard drive on a SATA2 connector to start off with - leaves your SATA3 one free. Honestly' date=' I doubt you notice difference really on a mechanical drive between SATA2 and SATA3 exept if you are benchmarking. You could also buy a two port SATA3 PCIe card to if you really needed to.[/quote']

Check the reviews on PCIe sata cards before you buy them, but they're an option.

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Blacks which are the fastest drives out there only read at around the 200MB/s mark which means that they wont be anywhere near that in terms of write performance and like bartek said the speeds for SATA2 is 375MB/s.

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I personally own a SYBA SD-PEX40054 PCI-Express 2.0 x4 SATA III for my older x58 mobo. I love it. It lets my older mobo still run my OCZ vertex 4 at around 450 mbs per sec. I got it for around $30 off a website that shouldnt be named in front of Linus. But regardless it works great for me. You would be able to add 4 more sata connections on the cheap if you have the extra Pci-e lanes.

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Strange thing is, when I moved over to X58 (from H77), I brought with me my SATA 3 6Gbps card into the X58, but it seems like the X58 is blocking off since I'm only getting 200Mbps both ways with my 830. And on my H77 I got 360Mbps with the card, and a full 500Mbit on-board the H77.

MEH

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