Will this board be useful in connecting a WD Internal SATA III 6GB HD or am I just wasting my time? My MBO is 2.0 and I have 1 PCIE slot available. Amazon told me that this card would work best with a SSD but I don't want that, I wish to use a SATA III...
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It all depends on your motherboard and there are many flavors of 2.0. I get SATA 1 speeds using this board in an old dell dimension 8400 (from 2003). I'm pretty sure it is MB limited.
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I am not familiar with that computer but what I found is that it is not compatible. Your computer uses the half mini 2 pcie while this is a sata 3 drive. I don't think they are compatible but you may want to ask someone else. As far as reliability, I have been using it for around 9 months and it has been great. No problems, failures, or weird nuances.
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My MBO is also 2.0 so I bought this to connect SEGATE ST3000DM001 3TB SATA III 6GB. It works well and has good performance.
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Hi,I'm using this with 1 ssd and AMD E-350 (Zacate) based motherboard ASUS E35M1-M for HTPC use. Works without problems.Another ssd should not be a problem. Recomended.
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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, also known as SATA II. In other words, your motherboard will address the drive, but you won't benefit from the increased speed capability of this strong WD hard drive. One solution is to buy a Rosewill RC-227 PCI-Express 2.0 SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card. Of course, your motherboard must have a PCI-e x1 slot available. A $19 solution.. 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, also known as SATA II. In other words, your motherboard will address the drive, but you won't benefit from the increased speed capability of this strong WD hard drive. One solution is to buy a Rosewill RC-227 PCI-Express 2.0 SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card. Of course, your motherboard must have a PCI-e x1 slot available. A... » Read More 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, also known as SATA II. In other words, your motherboard will address the drive, but you won't benefit from the increased speed capability of this strong WD hard drive. One solution is to buy a Rosewill RC-227 PCI-Express 2.0 SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card. Of course, your motherboard must have a PCI-e x1 slot available. A $19 solution.. « Show Less
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To the best of my knowledge any pcie can work in any larger sized slot... ie x4 will fit in x8 or x16 so im pretty certain that x1 will fit into any. Your main consideration with this would be the speed of the slot itself, pci has different versions, 1,2,3. Basically what I'm saying is that it should work, it should power and it should read but dependant on your motherboard your speed may be halved. I assure you that you will still get ~100MBps speed from internal hdd to your usb drives. Any further questions or quieries, please respond, glad to help.
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Well..the card is capable but I think your real-world speeds are going to be limited by your motherboard/processor architecture. Bought this controller to replace a SATA I on an old Xeon-based machine that I use for a file server. Had replaced a couple of Seagate drives on my JBOD array with some shiny new WD Blues, and the old SATA I controller couldn't handle the new drives. This one works like a champ. Here's what I get for speed: $ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdb|grep -i speed * Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s) * Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s) * Gen3 signaling speed (6.0Gb/s) $ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 956 MB in 2.00 seconds = 478.08 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 332 MB in 3.01 seconds = 110.19 MB/sec $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/shared/output.img bs=8k count=256k 262144+0 records in 262144+0 records out 2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 38.9774 s, 55.1 MB/s
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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, also known as SATA II. In other words, your motherboard will address the drive, but you won't benefit from the increased speed capability of this strong WD hard drive. One solution is to buy a Rosewill RC-227 PCI-Express 2.0 SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card. Of course, your motherboard must have a PCI-e x1 slot available. A $19 solution..
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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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that depends on you mother board...raid x is raid x ....but sata3 is way faster then 1 or 2 ... then thers how meany drive you put in raid vs the max speed of you raid card what ever it is
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find a different mobo.theses have bad sata controllers.i warrentied mined 6 months after getting it and this one the sata ports only work if hdd is on one and dvd etc. on 4-6. too much of a hassel to warrenty out again.
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Yes, SATA 3 is designed to work with SATA II, although at SATA II speeds. Either way it will still be faster than a normal magnetic drive. I'm using this specific SSD on a evga x58 motherboard with SATA II and it works fine. I also tried a Corsair Neuron GTX on the same motherboard and it runs perfectly with Windows 7. Just be sure to check with your motherboard vendor regarding SATA mode (AHCI, IDE or mixed) as you may have to update your BIOS to get it to work. Good luck!
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That compatibility is based on the interface. I believe this MB has a SATA3 3Gb/s ports. Why a 10k rpm drive versus an SSD?
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I check Western Design website and here's the spec. Your best bet is go to Western Design website and ask in ForumSystem Requirements* SATA interface connector on motherboard, or SATA controller card (sold separately) installed in an available 32-bit PCI expansion slot (2.1- or 2.2-compliant).* 3.5-inch internal drive bay.
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The unit pictured here appears to be a different one from the one I purchased earlier this year. The unit I purchased has not worked with my SATA DVD Drive. In fact, I have not found any use for it! Very Disappointed! I have a motherboard with two SATA connections and one IDE. I have two SATA HDs and a SATA DVD. I had hoped that I could find some combination of connections that would allow me to use all the drives simultaneously. So far, I must use any two of the drives directly from the motherboard. The adapter I received will not allow BIOS to "see" the third drive in any configuration. If this unit will work in this configuration, I'll buy it. Please let me know your results!! Thanks. john4life The unit pictured here appears to be a different one from the one I purchased earlier this year. The unit I purchased has not worked with my SATA DVD Drive. In fact, I have not found any use for it! Very Disappointed! I have a motherboard with two SATA connections and one IDE. I have two SATA HDs and a SATA DVD. I had hoped that I could find some combination of connections that would allow me to use all the drives simultaneously. So far, I must use any two of the drives directly from the motherboard. The adapter I received will not allow BIOS to "see" the third drive in any... » Read More The unit pictured here appears to be a different one from the one I purchased earlier this year. The unit I purchased has not worked with my SATA DVD Drive. In fact, I have not found any use for it! Very Disappointed! I have a motherboard with two SATA connections and one IDE. I have two SATA HDs and a SATA DVD. I had hoped that I could find some combination of connections that would allow me to use all the drives simultaneously. So far, I must use any two of the drives directly from the motherboard. The adapter I received will not allow BIOS to "see" the third drive in any configuration. If this unit will work in this configuration, I'll buy it. Please let me know your results!! Thanks. john4life « Show Less
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The short answer is yes. That motherboard has a M.2 connector and supports a 42mm length NGFF SSD. However, if you are going to use the M.2 socket for an SSD that will be your primary operating system (OS) drive, then there are much better choices, i.e. Samsung XP941 and Plextor M6e PX-G256M6e, both of which use the PCIe interface rather than SATA. The PCIe interface is significantly faster and much more robust than the SATA III (6GB/sec) could ever hope to be. On the other hand, if you are just intending to use that M.2 socket for a cache drive to hopefully accelerate a mechanical hard drive on which you have placed your OS, then I suppose it would be acceptable for that purpose. However that would be a BIG MISTAKE!! You have selected a first-class Z97 motherboard for your system foundation, and therefore, you should tap into its significant potential for delivering blazing performance. Than means NOT using mechanical hard drives for anything other than data storage. Any system related drives should be SSDs, and since you have a M.2 socket onboard, then take advantage of that cutting-edge technology and populate it with a PCIe SSD. The Samsung model has 4 lanes and the Plextor has 2 lanes. Right now, the Samsung is only available online from an overseas source, but both Amazon and Newegg sell the Plextor 256GB model for $219.99, which is a good deal. Take a good look at the Plextor specs and you'll see that it delivers about a 170% increase in performance over a comparable SATA model. That would be the way to go! Hope that helps. The Beagle
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Hi Z I would have to agree with R. Davis You may want to check your mother board settings as i had some problems having six sata devices connected. The drive has no drivers that come with it only some cheep burning software if you buy retail, Bulk drives is all i buy.