Will an SSD benefit me?

[Fatelinha]

Hi guys,

 

I've been planing to buy a new SSD for christmas but when I was watching the new "Eight Core Gaming PC Showdown - AMD vs Intel!" I realized that my motherboard only has SATA II ports.

 

My motherboard is an Asus P5G41t-m Lx3 and my boot and storage drives are a WD 7200rpm and a WD Caviar Green 5400rpm respectively.

 

So, will my system benefit from having an SSD as boot drive?

[The Official Czex]

Do you have more than one PCIe slot?

 

EDIT: Nevermind, you do. A PCIe to SATA card will run you a few bucks.

[EposVox]

Yes. It won't be AS MUCH as modern SATA, but will still be a huge benefit.

[Kirky2k15]

You will not be able to get full speed out of the SATA II bus but yeah it'll be a hell of a lot better than a standard HDD

[Fatelinha]

Do you have more than one PCIe slot?

 

EDIT: Nevermind, you do. A PCIe to SATA card will run you a few bucks.

 

Yes. It won't be AS MUCH as modern SATA, but will still be a huge benefit.

 

You will not be able to get full speed out of the SATA II bus but yeah it'll be a hell of a lot better than a standard HDD

 

Random read and write are what matter the most and those are far below the SATA 2 cap.

 

Thank you guys!

 

Ps: Any recomendation?

[The Official Czex]

Thank you guys!

 

Ps: Any recomendation?

 

http://www.amazon.com/SIIG-2-Port-Storage-Controller-SC-SA0L11-S1/dp/B006Q4MGOM

 

Plus

 

http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX200-250GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B00RQA6DTE

[Imaginary Friend]

https://pcpartpicker.com/part/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz75e250bam Cheap, Fast...

[KemoKa]

The snappiness that you get from an SSD comes from the random reads and writes. As long as you have a processor that can handle the throughput, you'll get all of that, because SATA3 SSDs still can't saturate a SATA2 bus in random reads and writes. Seek times will be similarly unaffected by the lower bandwidth.

The only thing that will be drastically affected will be sequential reads and writes.