running sata 3 SSD on sata 2 board
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It'll be fine. You won't miss much on the lost mb/sec as its not that what makes an ssd fast, its the almost instant seek etc.. The faster mb/sec dosen't come into play for the majority of tasks.
Only your epeen will suffer as read/write sequential will be limited to around 275mb/sec when you check with benchmarks.
As Justintime said though, the biggest noticable gain from getting an SSD is the almost instant seek which means that you will have windows loading up in under 20 seconds and it will be very snappy.
As Justintime said though, the biggest noticable gain from getting an SSD is the almost instant seek which means that you will have windows loading up in under 20 seconds and it will be very snappy.
Problem with that is that 99% of all pci-e controllers are Marvell chipset and although you may have increased your read/write to 400 Mb/sec I can pretty much guarantee that you will have decreased your random read/write speeds by a similar amount. Marvell sata 3 chipsets are not as good as Intel sata 2 chipsets.
All depends on how you use your ssd really. As an operating system drive it will probably be better to leave it on the Intel sata 2. If transferring large sequential files then better on the Marvell.
I got so sick of problems with the marvell GSATA on my motherboard, I went out of my way to avoid more marvell stuff 
Got an ASMEDIA 106x SATA3 controller instead:
both drives connected to the SATA3 controller, but the Intel on the right is only SATA2 (and quite old now) I think the speeds look fine for the samsung, it does hit the PCI-e x1 speed limit before the SATA3 one though, it would only get similar read speeds to the intel if left on sata2 ports.
Got an ASMEDIA 106x SATA3 controller instead:
both drives connected to the SATA3 controller, but the Intel on the right is only SATA2 (and quite old now) I think the speeds look fine for the samsung, it does hit the PCI-e x1 speed limit before the SATA3 one though, it would only get similar read speeds to the intel if left on sata2 ports.
shows TRIM working on the right, both the Samsung Magician and Intel Toolbox seem to work fine although i have had to stop the Magician software running due to it instantly waking the computer from sleep
Hotswap works fine also, my only complaint has been the 2 sata ports have no clips so you need to make sure the cables are sturdy enough not to randomly fall out on their own.
