Got my new SSD

[silentmelodies]

Are these speeds OK for a SATAII lmited interface? The SSD is a Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB one

 

[don_svetlio]

SATA 2 SSD is pointless as a 7200RPM/10 000RPM HDD is pretty close to it

[Aereldor]

SATA 2 SSD is pointless as a 7200RPM/10 000RPM HDD is pretty close to it

Yep. It's like getting a running shoe for a peg leg. Or a 500CC engine for a tricycle.

[Marziman]

Yep. It's like getting a running shoe for a peg leg. Or a 500CC engine for a tricycle.

It's like making a car look like a Ferrari, pricing it like a Corvette and giving it a 4 CYLINDER ENGINE.  Alfa Romeo 4C...

[Gikero]

SATA 2 SSD is pointless as a 7200RPM/10 000RPM HDD is pretty close to it

I believe he said his interface was SATA II, not the SSD. I have SSDs in my old MacBook, Asus laptop and game server. All three systems are limited to SATA II, but I notice a huge difference. I even did some direct comparisons with a WD Black drive and a Crucial 240GB on the game server. All my SSDs are SATA III, but are limited to SATA II speeds.

I think it makes enough of a difference. For me, anyway.

[don_svetlio]

I believe he said his interface was SATA II, not the SSD. I have SSDs in my old MacBook, Asus laptop and game server. All three systems are limited to SATA II, but I notice a huge difference. I even did some direct comparisons with a WD Black drive and a Crucial 240GB on the game server. All my SSDs are SATA III, but are limited to SATA II speeds.

I think it makes enough of a difference. For me, anyway.

SATA III is double over SATA II so that would be a much bigger difference than 180MB/s on a 7200RPM HDD vs 300MB/s on a SATA II SSD.

[silentmelodies]

Nope, the fastest HDD i can find is a HGST 1TB one, with a speed @ cca 120MB read/write. And i hate the sound of them. And its a laptop, so 2.5" HDDs. And i like the access time.

[Gikero]

SATA III is double over SATA II so that would be a much bigger difference than 180MB/s on a 7200RPM HDD vs 300MB/s on a SATA II SSD.

I am aware of SATA specs. I feel people forget to take the access time into account. That makes a difference. Like I said, I've taken the same system and ran an install of Win Server 2012 R2, Xubuntu and Windows 8.1 from a SSD and from a high performance HDD. I felt a difference. Raw transfer speeds, yes they are lower. But the system loads faster, the interface responds faster and in general, everything felt faster.

If @silentmelodies wants an SSD in his older system, then that is fine. His questions were if his SSD was performing as optimally as it could, given the bus it was limited to. No one answered his question.

Edit, yes. You're getting good speeds for a SATA II bus. Max is roughly 285 sequential reads and 275 sequential writes. You have overhead so 232MB/s writes looks good to me.

[silentmelodies]

Edit, yes. You're getting good speeds for a SATA II bus. Max is roughly 285 sequential reads and 275 sequential writes. You have overhead so 232MB/s writes looks good to me.

 

Thank you! Finnaly an answer. I feel like everyone is a electrical engineer and computer scientist on LTT, that fails to answer simple questions. 

The thing is, my Lenovo is officially supported only until SATA I, but i patched the BIOS to support SATA II. I'm satisfied.