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NASNoob11
Aug 30, 2013Aspirant
Sata interface spec?
Back in the old days of ReadyNAS, most all of the SATA hard drives used a 3GB/sec interface speed. Now I see SATA hard drives touting 6GB/sec interface speeds. WUP? Do these 6GB/sec drives still 'ta...
Etz
Aug 30, 2013Aspirant
Currently 3GB/s is more than enough for harddrives, you wont even notice a difference between 1,5GB/s SATA-I and 3GB/s SATA-II.
Also all SATA standards are fully backwards compatible, so SATA-III SSD for example will run Happily on SATA-I, only difference would be speed.
HDD`s are different story, fastets ones can only reach about 190MB/s sequential read, so SATA-II is more than adequate.
Also all SATA standards are fully backwards compatible, so SATA-III SSD for example will run Happily on SATA-I, only difference would be speed.
HDD`s are different story, fastets ones can only reach about 190MB/s sequential read, so SATA-II is more than adequate.
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