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Buying a SSD For My Desktop

  • 10-08-2012 10:10pm
    #1
    stevek93
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    Hi all,

    I am looking to buy a SSD for my desktop current hard drive acting up unfortunately not to sure what to be looking at my motherboard only supports up to 3Gb/s most drive that I can see is 6gb/s its a Asus 4N68T V2.


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  • #2
    stevek93
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    Just thinking might upgrade my MB first to a 6Gb/s slot and then get the SSD. Would I be wise in doing this?


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
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    You could get a 6Gb/s SSD and upgrade the interface later if you wanted, it would still work at 3Gb/s.


  • #4
    stevek93
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    Karsini wrote: »
    You could get a 6Gb/s SSD and upgrade the interface later if you wanted, it would still work at 3Gb/s.

    Does my MB not need to support SATA 3 in order to do that? how would I check it does support SATA 3 :confused:


  • #5
    stevek93
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    Forget what I said there. :P Some SSDs requires a SATA 3 how do I check what my is?


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
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    stevek93 wrote: »
    Forget what I said there. :P Some SSDs requires a SATA 3 how do I check what my is?

    I've never seen any SSD (or hard disk for that matter) that requires a 6Gb/s interface, they've always been backwards compatible. I know 100% that the OCZ Vertex 3/Agility 3 work fine on 3Gb/s despite being 6Gb/s native.

    What motherboard do you have?


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  • #7
    stevek93
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    Karsini wrote: »
    I've never seen any SSD (or hard disk for that matter) that requires a 6Gb/s interface, they've always been backwards compatible. I know 100% that the OCZ Vertex 3/Agility 3 work fine on 3Gb/s despite being 6Gb/s native.

    What motherboard do you have?

    Ah I get what you mean now. Its only SATA III that wont work with SATA II or SATA I correct? The motherboard is a Asus 4N68T V2. This should work fine me thinks http://www.dabs.ie/products/samsung-128gb-830-series-sata-6gb-s-2-5--ssd-basic-kit-819N.html?src=3


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
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    stevek93 wrote: »
    Ah I get what you mean now. Its only SATA III that wont work with SATA II or SATA I correct? The motherboard is a Asus 4N68T V2. This should work fine me thinks http://www.dabs.ie/products/samsung-128gb-830-series-sata-6gb-s-2-5--ssd-basic-kit-819N.html?src=3

    That board has a 3Gb/s interface (commonly referred to as SATA II), but I've never seen a device which requires the higher speed interface. You could get a 6GB/s SSD now and get a controller card or new motherboard later.

    3Gb/s drives don't work on some VIA 1.5Gb/s controllers but that was due to a compatibility issue with the controller rather than the drives themselves. Maybe this is what you were thinking of? :)


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