SATA6 or SATAII difference qustion

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first time im gonna use a SSD so sorry if this a noob question.

ive basically norrowed my choice of ssd down till 2.

- Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s R355/W70
- OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II R285/W275

the crucial has a better read speed but the write speed
is major slow compared to the ocz, on the other hand the crucial
is sata6 and the ocz is sata2.

does sata6 make all the difference or will i just go for better spec sata2?
 
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The 6 Gb/s refers to the interface between the drive and your motherboard. This interface is found on most newer boards, but the drive can still be used on the older interface of SATA-II, but limited to this interface's slower transfer speed.

The newer interface I believe is being referred to as SATA-III, or by stating the drive is 6 Gb/s.

In theory, this new interface should be faster, but I have no experience in this area and so am open to corrections.
 
Remember that your motherboard has to support SATA 6Gbps.

Otherwise it'll run at SATAII which is 3Gbps. This limits the read speeds you can get from a C300 SSD.
 
jakesnake said:
so is it worth takin the hit in write speed to get the faster read speed on a faster interface?
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Yes, 90%+ of use for a boot drive (I'm assuming this is what your using it for) is reading. Once you have the OS & programs/drivers installed onto it, you will hardly do any more writing to it, whilst you will read from it every time you open a program (that's installed on that drive), or boot your OS.
 
Running the Crucial RealSSD in sataII mode will bottle neck it to about the same as the ocz drive so i would go for the ocz as the write speeds are a lot quicker and is a better all rounder
 
ghost101 said:
Remember that your motherboard has to support SATA 6Gbps.

Otherwise it'll run at SATAII which is 3Gbps. This limits the read speeds you can get from a C300 SSD.
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the board im getting is the Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H AMD 890GX
it supports SATA 6gbs

R.C.Anderson said:
Yes, 90%+ of use for a boot drive (I'm assuming this is what your using it for) is reading. Once you have the OS & programs/drivers installed onto it, you will hardly do any more writing to it, whilst you will read from it every time you open a program (that's installed on that drive), or boot your OS.
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yes im buying to use as a boot drive.
on a side note would it be sensible to install games
to it also so they are faster? its a gaming rig im building.

hartty said:
Running the Crucial RealSSD in sataII mode will bottle neck it to about the same as the ocz drive so i would go for the ocz as the write speeds are a lot quicker and is a better all rounder
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the board im getting supports SATA6gbs so ill be using it in that.

:):)
 
jakesnake said:
yes im buying to use as a boot drive.
on a side note would it be sensible to install games
to it also so they are faster? its a gaming rig im building.
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It'll only improve game/map load times etc, it won't change the actual gameplay. So it depends how much space you have, once you install windows, you won't have a huge amount of space left, although there should be enough for a few games if load times matter to you.
 
R.C.Anderson said:
It'll only improve game/map load times etc, it won't change the actual gameplay. So it depends how much space you have, once you install windows, you won't have a huge amount of space left, although there should be enough for a few games if load times matter to you.
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yeah faster game booting and map loads would be nice;)
do you know wot an average sized windows 7 installation is?
ill only install the more high end games on the SSD because
of the limited space:cool:
 
jakesnake said:
yeah faster game booting and map loads would be nice;)
do you know wot an average sized windows 7 installation is?
ill only install the more high end games on the SSD because
of the limited space:cool:
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I run Xp myself so don't know how much space W7 uses, however the requirements say 16Gb for 32-bit, and 20GB for 64-bit is required, although if you don't install/use everything avaliable, it'll be less than that.

EDIT: just noticed, if you want the XP mode avaliable, that takes another 15GB
 
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R.C.Anderson said:
I run Xp myself so don't know how much space W7 uses, however the requirements say 16Gb for 32-bit, and 20GB for 64-bit is required, although if you don't install/use everything avaliable, it'll be less than that.

EDIT: just noticed, if you want the XP mode avaliable, that takes another 15GB
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im gonna get the 64gb Crucial so that leaves me 44gb, pretty decent!!
bad company 2 , medal of honor and another game would fit in ther nicely
im happy with that ;):cool:
 
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