Is SSD worth it with SATA II? - Page 2

broz0rs

United States2294 Posts

January 14 2012 10:25 GMT

#21

I built a new system and I went with a low end sata II based SSD and I'm very satisfied with the performance, especially the ridiculous boot up speed.

gruff

Sweden2276 Posts

January 14 2012 11:57 GMT

#22

I have a sata 2 ssd and I notice a huge improvement over my old mechanical disks. If you have never tried a sata 3 ssd then you probably won't miss it and will be happy with the one you are thinking of getting.

Djzapz

Canada10681 Posts

January 14 2012 16:12 GMT

#23

On January 14 2012 18:27 ledarsi wrote:
Given current hardware there is absolutely no difference between SATA II and SATA III. No existing drive or other device can read/write fast enough to fill even the SATA II pipeline, much less the way, way faster pipe of SATA III.

That's not true, plenty of modern SSDs go well above SATA2 specs.

Perryy

54 Posts

January 17 2012 02:08 GMT

#24

For any USA (I think) people, this 80GB Intel SSD is on sale for $79.99 with promo code EMCYTZT1061

denzelz

United States604 Posts

January 19 2012 07:44 GMT

#25

Thanks for answer guys. To address some questions, the other components in my computer are still going strong for the games that I want to play (i5 + 5850) so I don't plan to upgrade until maybe late this year or next year. I am maxing out on my 500GB HDD though and since HDD prices are so high right now, I thought that it would be a good time to get a SSD. I was hoping that SSD prices might have dropped by now but $1/GB still seems reasonable for me.

Thanks again for all the replies; those are certainly very helpful. I tried to look on the web for the specific scenario of a SATA III SSD on a SATA II controller but couldn't find any reliable articles. But it seems like it doesn't matter anyway. I think I plan to either get the 80GB Intel drive that Perryy linked or a 120GB one since those capacity seem to be the pricing sweet spot right now.

Myrmidon

United States9452 Posts

January 19 2012 08:03 GMT

#26

AnandTech Bench has some SATA3 SSDs shown on a SATA2 interface. If the same SSD is listed twice and one time it says (6Gbps), that's the time it's run on SATA3. When it's unmarked, that means it was run on SATA2.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/379?vs=380

Rannasha

Netherlands2398 Posts

January 19 2012 11:35 GMT

#27

The main benefit of an SSD is the speed at which it can perform IO-operations on many small files (random reads/writes in benchmarks). The access time of an SSD is many times shorter than that of a mechanical drive. This aspect doesn't change from SATA2 to SATA3 and benchmarks, such as the AnandTech link posted above, show very little difference in random read/write performance between the two. This access pattern is more important for real-life performance than reading or writing large chunks of sequential data (big file operations). Especially since the largest files you typically keep on the mechanical drive.

Decent SSDs can saturate a SATA2 bus with sequential reads or writes, but even then they're still significantly faster than mechanical drives.

So it's definitely worth it to use a SSD on a SATA2 bus and since the standards are compatible, I'd buy a SATA3 SSD with more up-to-date components and the option to get (slightly) better performance if/when you upgrade your motherboard.

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