SSD 1 compatability with SSD 3 - PLZ HELP!!

[yaszq2001]

Hi

Your assistance needed please...

I have an ASUS P5L - VM1394 motherboard which has a SATA connector (SATA 1, I believe).

Will this Kingston 120GB SSD 2.5-inch V300 SATA 3 drive work on my build bearing in mind its SATA 3 and mine is SATA 1??

Thanks in advance!!!

 

[MrWizard6600]

yeah you're fine.

the SATA spec is intrinsically backwards compliant, so your motherboard will attempt to drive the SATA 3 controller on your drive at SATA 1 speeds, and the drive will simply accept that.

And before anyone can chime in about the performance hit, the drive will saturate the SATA-1 bus, but that wont really impact your performance improvement. The value of an SSD comes in the dramatically reduced seek times, from 10ms down to ~0.1ms, a speedup of 100x, and the overall throughput of a bus has no impact on seek times.

 

[zandor]

ASUS.com says you have SATA2 (3 gigabit, SATA3 is 6 gigabit). https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5LVM_1394/

Other than that, it's still backwards compatible but you should be able to get 3Gbit/s instead of 1.5Gbit/s.

 

[yaszq2001]

Great thanks guys! Will try it out and update!!

Lol didnt know it was SATA 2