hard drive - Low benchmark score for SSD because of SATA revision?

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2014-07
  • ub3rst4r

    I was looking at some benchmark scores for the Intel 320 Series Solid State Drive. Here's the sequential read/write speeds I looked at:

    • Sustained Sequential Read: Up to 270MBps

    • Sustained Sequential Write: Up to 130MBps

    I'm wondering that because this drive is SATA II, is that why the speeds are half of the newer SATA III SSDs (which are 500Mbps)? Also, is the SSD going to be alot slower based on the above speeds?

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  • develroot

    Possible Duplicate:
    Is it worth to get a SATA-3 controller to max my SSD out?

    After multiple thoughts I decided to buy my first SSD drive, and after some research i've found theese:

    • OCZ Vertex 2
      • SATA II (3Gb/s)
      • SandForce SF1200
      • Max Read: up to 285MB/s
      • Max Write: up to 275MB/s

    and

    • OCZ Agility 3
      • SATA III (6Gb/s)
      • SandForce SF2281
      • Max Read: up to 525MB/s
      • Max Write: up to 475MB/s

    (both of 40 GB capacity)

    Agility 3 costs only 10$ more than Vertex 2. Is it worth buying it, assuming that my motherboard supports only SATA II 3Gb/s? Can I do something to avoid the bottleneck? (upgrading mobo is not an option)


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  • Col

    I'd say for 10 bucks it's worth it for future proofing and better performance.

  • D.Iankov

    If you plan an upgrade in the next year - definitely.

    If not - you must check which is more stable of the two models and has lower fail rates..