What sort of speeds can I expect can I expect if I use an SSD with this? Does it function as a SATA 3? or something lower?
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I did not feel any deferent between it and the original place. I can tell that SDD in caddy is faster than HDD in the original place.
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No idea but Google around. I see lots of comments about SSD and RAID setups on the net. Good luck!
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You have a more recent motherboard than I do by two years. Perhaps I was lucky on my P55 that the components and bus speed performed near the rated speed of the Samsung Pro 840 SSD. My P55 board worked. As I remember back the faster protocol had to be enabled that supports SATAIII speeds. I can only gasp as straws for your experience. Many SSDs are rated at the speed you are experiencing. It's not going to get any faster than the slowest component. Good luck!
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I'm sure it would but you wouldn't see any speed benefit from it since the 1-gigabit network speed would be the limiting factor. Do you have another reason for wanting to use an SSD such as a harsh operating environment or something?
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I installed a Samsung 840 1TB SATA and an Atlas 480GB MSATA in mine, myself, giving me 1.5TB of 6GB/sec SSD speed. Yes the laptop is still covered under the warranty, just not the drive(s). FYI its LIGHTNING fast, and VERY easy to install the drives, just remove the bottom (6 torx screws) and 4 screws for the SATA and 1 screw for the MSATA
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Not 100% sure but SATA III (revision 3.x) interface, formally known as SATA 6Gb/s, is a third generation SATA interface running at 6.0Gb/s. The bandwidth throughput, which is supported by the interface, is up to 600MB/s. This interface is backwards compatible with SATA 3 Gb/s interface. This particular device claims a transfer rate up to 480Mbps, leading me to believe its a III
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I don't know the exact speeds, but it's one of the slower drives I have. I have the 8GB version and I don't recommend it.
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Sata 6gb, the difference is speed...to benefit from the 6gbs, you have to have a compatible motherboard or else it will work on 3gbs (which would be fast anyways)
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Brad I think as long as it is sata 2 or 3 you are good. Mine started as a vista I up to 7 it is so fast now for loading I love it.
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I looked at the spec for this notebook and it says it has a sata hd, so it should work but only at sata1 speeds
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Yes, but you would loose the performance benefits of a SSD on account of the bottleneck of SATA 1.0 interface
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I wondered the same thing when I bought it since I wanted to be certain of this. The manufacturer said it was "compatible" with SATA III, but that does not necessarily mean anything. The external interface is USB 3.0 and limtied to 5Gbits/sec max throughput, of course. Anyway, after testing with a fast 3.5" 7200 disk drive, I came to the conclusion that the drive internally is running at max performance for its platter write speeds - as you can see from my reported review. Unless I were to check with an SSD, I would not be certain of the interface, but my educated guess is that it is is an internal SATA III interface ... hope that helps! I wondered the same thing when I bought it since I wanted to be certain of this. The manufacturer said it was "compatible" with SATA III, but that does not necessarily mean anything. The external interface is USB 3.0 and limtied to 5Gbits/sec max throughput, of course. Anyway, after testing with a fast 3.5" 7200 disk drive, I came to the conclusion that the drive internally is running at max performance for its platter write speeds - as you can see from my reported review. Unless I were to check with an SSD, I would not be certain of the interface, but my educated guess is... » Read More I wondered the same thing when I bought it since I wanted to be certain of this. The manufacturer said it was "compatible" with SATA III, but that does not necessarily mean anything. The external interface is USB 3.0 and limtied to 5Gbits/sec max throughput, of course. Anyway, after testing with a fast 3.5" 7200 disk drive, I came to the conclusion that the drive internally is running at max performance for its platter write speeds - as you can see from my reported review. Unless I were to check with an SSD, I would not be certain of the interface, but my educated guess is that it is is an internal SATA III interface ... hope that helps! « Show Less
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I was unable to locate any specifications for the system you identified.Make sure motherboard has Sata 3Gps or 6Gps (faster)If you are adding the SSD make sure you have an extra SATA port, cable and a place to mount SSD.** If the drive is configured properly on a 6Gps port, there will be a very notable performance boost over any HDD, this SSD will outperform any 10,000 rpm drive.
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It's 5400RPM, so access times are "slower" than a 7200RPM drive. It has an 8meg cache vs. a 16m cache. I'd venture to say that neither of these are noticeable to the typical user. It's hot-pluggable SATA II, which are current capabilities. The 7200RPM/16m version is only about $5 more.
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Thanks for your information. I did also find out that there's a sata port intended for an optical drive. If so, then I can mount the SSD in that bay and still have all 4 bays for data. Now - does anybody know if the BIOS can handle 3TB drives without repartitioning?
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Ok so there's a few things you need to understand in relation to comparing speeds. First there's no standard read write speeds for hdds my 7200 3tb drive ranges from 72 to 150 MB/s Next plastered drives are hard to compare directly with solid state. Platter drives read faster on the inner tracks compared to the litter tracks. There's also spin - up and spin down time for a platter drive. Now this ssd WILL max out your 3gbs sata2 at about 300 to 380MB/s Of course you look and see oh that's only double. True long read will be about double speed. However, it's those short access small files that'll benefit the most. Ssds have no platter. So no spin speed. They just send as much as the device / interface can handle. They also don't "seek" for data so there's no time loss there. In random reads my ssd is roughly 60x faster over all. But if I'm moving a TB of movies or whatnot. It's not AS remarkably fast but still a 100% better experience.
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Yes, however the speed results will be limited to which speed sata your motherboard supports. Still a major upgrade over regular mechanical hds though. Operating system startup time and folder access will be considerably faster.