Okay, plan is within the next week or so is to get myself a nice 2TB SATA 3 HDD to replace my ageing and slow 500GB drive (SATA 2). To get the most performance out of it I ideally wanna run it from a SATA3 port - Problem is, my motherboard, an Asus Rampage 2 Extreme, doesn't support SATA 3, so, next best solution short of replacing a motherboard (and RAM and CPU as well), is to get a PCI-E SATA3 expansion card.
Problem is, I've been told conflicting data. Some have said I can just use it as a boot device without issue, some say it's dependant on the chip/expansion card. Other theories is that it depends on the motherboard/chipset however looking into it for my MB/Chipset (X58) yields no results. I'm absolutely clueless and I don't wanna spend £100 on expansion card and HDD only to find I can't boot from it (as I intend to replace my current drives).
Any help FP?
no HDD reaches the limits of SATA II, currently only newer generations of SSDs will benefit from the increased bandwidth
SATA III on mechanical drives is purely marketing BS, and it's all backwards compatible anyway
The words above are completely true.
That helps a lot actually. Thanks.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.
