jaclaz Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 @dyatraderBUT there is still a misunderstanding.Do no confuse bus speed with actual device (or data transfer) speed.Benchmark your disk (and possibly find a public benchmark of it and several other disk to make a comparison).A SATA interface is credited for THEORETICAL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA2.1 SATA revision 1.0 - 1.5 Gbit/s - 150 MB/s2.2 SATA revision 2.0 - 3 Gbit/s - 300 MB/s2.3 SATA revision 3.0 - 6 Gbit/s - 600 MB/sas always happens most of the hype is about the theory, any common 7200 RPM hard disk SATA 2 or SATA 3 will not be that much faster than a very fast SATA1 disk, as more or less the "saturation" of a mechanical hard disk is near the 150 Mb/s (and in day-to-day opreration what really counts is read times and "random access")Check this:http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9175410/SATA_6Gbit_sec._Does_it_double_your_SATA_speed_and this (to have an idea how different settings with differnet disk drives may be largely different):http://expertester.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/ahci-vs-ide-–-benchmark-advantage/jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daytrader Posted February 21, 2013 Author Share Posted February 21, 2013 Thankyou for that post, i will do some tests once i get my system up and running, i just wanted to make sure my new sata hard drive will still have some benifits connected to the sata port(even thou AHCI wont be enabled or sata drivers installed ) on motherboard over a old ide drive connected to the old ide slots, and allen2 confirmed it will be enabled as a sata drive still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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