SATA II, really a bottleneck?

[damric]

Is this all hype or is there truth to the matter?

Will a SATA II (3Gbit/s) connection bottleneck a SATA III (500MB/s) SSD?

Please do explain.

[G.SKILL]

Hi,

you may check this link for more information about it: http://www.directron.com/sata3gbs.html

[damric]

That's a pretty good explanation.

Now, what people want to know is...

Is it worth getting a SATA III SSD if your motherboard only supports SATA II, and how much worse will everyday performance be?

[G.SKILL]

Hi

the price of SATA II/III are very close now, will suggest to get the SATA III SSD in case to upgrade the motherboard, however, you will not feel much differenace by daily usage. in fact, it will had 10% ~40% performance difference by the way you used the SSD, it's all about how you use the drive.

[Tradesman]

Another thought, just to toss 2 cents in, if you are looking to get an SSD (size doesn't really matter) but if you are looking for say a 120GB or 240GB, I'd look to SATA III which would give a bit of an additional boost if/when you move it to a newer mobo, but also instead of looking directly at 120 or 240, look at a pair of 60/64s or a pair of 120s and put them in RAID 0.........if as a single drive you get the SSD running at say 220MB, in RAID 0 you'll prob look at about 370+ MB and with prices as they are, in the vicinity of $1 a GB price differential between 2 smaller vs 1 big is negligible. I also like that when set up using the Intel RAID drivers, it's fairly simple to pull the RAID from one system, and simply plug it into another and generally (with Win7 anyway (more troublesome with Win8 or Vista)) it will boot right up and load the needed drivers for the new mobo/CPU combo and you're off and running. I've got a pair of SSD RAIDs that I occasionally change back and forth between my P67 and Z77 (and have used on a few other different mobos also, to show the faster boot up and program access times vs a single SSD or a mechanical drive

[damric]

Thanks Tman!

Ok to summarize the answers to my two questions, that was

1) Yes, some

2) Yes, definitely

[Tradesman]

Pretty much sums it up, to me SATA, SATA II, SATA III is to a degree a nice approach and they do continue to improve, but mainly it appears that the products themself are improving - don't see anything out there that can truely max out even the original SATA spec (1.5)....which in large part is why after being rather upset with all the early SATA SSDs I worked with, I started doubling them up into RAID, which really kicked thing up a notch