Is this laptop capable of taking a SATA 6Gb/s drive?

radioactiveman

Hi

Ok so I was looking at this laptop (Core i5):
http://www.dabs.ie/products/samsung-series3-350v5c-a02-ci5-3210m-6gb-500gb-w7hp-15-6--led-hd-ngd-86ZL.html?src=7

The chipset is: Intel HM76. This has 6Gb/s ports but the hard drive in the laptop already is only Sata II.
If I put in a good SSD capable of 6Gb/s would it be able to use it fully?

Is it worth going for 6Gb/s second or should you look for other things apart from the actual transfer rate that might make more of a difference when you're using the computer?
Thanks!

Skill Magill

you'd be adding a further roughly €200 for a 250gb ssd, and there appears to be only one hd bay, so you'd downsizing from the 500gb it ships with.It all depends on what you want the computer for.

Alanstrainor

eoing1 wrote: »

you'd be adding a further roughly €200 for a 250gb ssd, and there appears to be only one hd bay, so you'd downsizing from the 500gb it ships with.It all depends on what you want the computer for.

256 is a lot, and they're coming down in price.

156+postage here http://www2.hardwareversand.de/Solid-State-Disk/56863/Samsung+SSD+830+256GB+SATA+III+Paper+Box.article

And that's a fantastic drive./

Torqay

radioactiveman wrote: »

If I put in a good SSD capable of 6Gb/s would it be able to use it fully?

Yes.

I have seen a 256 GB Samsung 830 Series SSD (probably the best apart from the new 840 series) for 180 yoyos on Amazon.

radioactiveman

you'd be adding a further roughly €200 for a 250gb ssd, and there appears to be only one hd bay, so you'd downsizing from the 500gb it ships with.It all depends on what you want the computer for.

Yeah it would be expensive but cost aside, it'd be good to have the option.

Was thinking of maybe taking out the existing hard drive and using an enclosure that you can put in the DVD slot instead of the DVD and using the old drive that way (haven't much use for DVD drive).

radioactiveman

Alanstrainor wrote: »

256 is a lot, and they're coming down in price.

156+postage here http://www2.hardwareversand.de/Solid-State-Disk/56863/Samsung+SSD+830+256GB+SATA+III+Paper+Box.article

And that's a fantastic drive./

Thanks that's exactly the one I was thinking of, cheapest I've seen it yet..

Skill Magill

Yep, deadly idea, it would be nice if you could swap out the dvd drive for a hd enclosure (after intalling os though haha)