What SATA does it support? 6.0Gb/s? ( Because i am confused on what SATA Optical Drives support. )
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1.5 Gb/s http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=234964 http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Computer/Computer+Drives/BDR-2209
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It does support sata III so yes it supports 6Gb/s however (and you prob already know this) the bottleneck of any burner is the spin speed as cd media pretty much flies apart much higher than I think 40x and so you won't see much better write and read transfer rated than a sata 2 hdd really. But that's reality. This drive is the best drive you can buy and it flat out works 100% every time.
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It supports all the way up to SATA III 6.0Gb/s, and I'm pretty sure SATA is backwards compatible (to SATA I and SATA II).
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I'm running it on a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R mainboard. This week I attached a 250Gb EVO ssd to the IO Crest and the Samsung Magician software is reporting it as a SATA 3 (6Gb/s) interface. My drive benchmarks at 428 (sequential read), 57935 iops (random) and 402 (sequential write), 24716 iops (random), now well below the 540 / 520 max indicated. The drive has slightly better than 50% freespace.
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This is a full up system - it uses standard 3.5" SATA drives. Since it is a server, it is probably a good idea to use the 'Black' drives for best performance. However, the Optical Drive bay for some reason is set up for 9.5 mm SATA - typically used for Notebook computers.
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I typically use a Samsung SN-208DB, but you could use any standard slim SATA optical drive.
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I looked up your PC and it does support SATA drives. Yes your PC will use this drive just fine. I use CD-DVD Burner XP ( https://cdburnerxp.se/en/home ) and it is great FREE software that supports this drive,but it needs DOT NET software,that is als FREE to download during the burner software install.
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Although I am not sure what speed [P]ATA drive I used the device functions without any issues. The [P]ATA should automatically use a compatible speed. ATA is synonymous with PATA after SATA was created.
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Dear Sir,This is Millie from ORICO.I am so sorry for the trouble that we had made.this enclosure support 6TB drive.Please contact ORICO Customer Care Center for Firmware update.Kind regards,Millie
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Can't say. I didn't have to update tho. This is what I bought:OCZ Technology 256GB Vertex 4 Series SATA 6.0 GB/s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive (SSD) With Industry's Highest 120K IOPS
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sata is sata, doesn't matter if it is sata3 or sata2, all those only matter to things like hard drive that needs that much bandwidth to start with. sata3 is over kill, hdd can't function up to that speed anyways, unless you are connecting to a high end SSD.
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This enclosure seems to have lower read/write speeds than a # of other enclosures interfaces that explicitly state they support SATA III, so my guess is it does *not* support SATA III speeds. This appears to be confirmed by Anker in their response to my review where they say it's only 'compatible with SATA III': (http://www.amazon.com/review/R1ZD7X6XFODRSW/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm) FYI, here are some speeds in MB/s, with an Intel 330 120GB SSD: Anker USB 3.0/eSATA enclosure (this enclosure): 176.4/134.2 Seagate GoFlex Slim USB 3.0 interface: 250.5/152.5 SIIG 6Gb/s SATA to USB 3.0: 257.9/149.6 Newer Technology Voyager S3: 396.1/136.4 The Anker is the slowest of the bunch. The last 3 all supposedly support SATA III, but clearly the Voyager S3 is the fastest. The SIIG has the ASMedia 1051e chipset (supposed to be very fast), so I'm not sure what, in the end, causes the S3 to have dramatically higher read speeds. Different chipset? Updated firmware?
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Yes, no problem. I personally use a standard SATA drive through, I need the capacity. Works like a charm...
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I'm running this drive on ACHI, so yea, it works. ACHI says its only running at 1.5 GB/s when it should be 3 GB/s for my motherboard and the drive clearly supports up to 6GB/s but it doesn't really matter since you'll pretty much never go too far over 200 MB/s with one of these drives.
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This is backward compatible to sata 2 (3gbs). It's not listed as sata 1 (1.5gbs) compatible and even if it was your performance benefit would be drastically limited by sata 1. Your probably better off with a traditional hard drive.
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This hard drive is compatible with sata 6gb? I hope your early reply thank you in advance.
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it will work but you wont see the full performance of the drives. you'll get between 300 and 375mb/s on sata 2.
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Thanks - trying to find out before purchasing, but I found some posts on Newegg that indicate they are SATA (maybe they changed from IDE to SATA and this is why it isn't in the specs).
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I'm looking for a cable right now and just finished doing research and there is no difference in speeds between different cables. "No performance difference between SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 6Gb/s cables." "SATA revision designator on cables is mostly just marketing and has no bearing on the actual performance the cable can provide." http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/SATA-3Gb-s-vs-6Gb-s-Cable-Performance-Revisited-183/