I'm wondering if all SATA SSD's can translate their performance backwards - i.e. if a 300MB/sec or 600MB/sec write SSD can run at 150MB/sec on a SATA1 interface, or if there are some performance penalties with backwards compatibility with some controllers that can make some run slower than the interface.
I'm after a 256Gb SSD to stick on an ancient Vista laptop that has some fairly read-write-intensive software on it (and for reasons of specific hardware would be kinda a major hassle to move to anything newer or VM) and I'd like to get the best performance that I'm going to get out of this setup.
I'm after a 256Gb SSD to stick on an ancient Vista laptop that has some fairly read-write-intensive software on it (and for reasons of specific hardware would be kinda a major hassle to move to anything newer or VM) and I'd like to get the best performance that I'm going to get out of this setup.