I currently have a 4 yr old machine and a p5q pro. I want to get a SSD but would I be able to run a SATA III on this mobo being it is only SATA I? http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5Q_PRO/#specifications
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SSD with P5Q pro?
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SATA 2.0 Mobo and SATA 3.0 drive I believe you mean. 
Yes you can run a SATA 3.0 drive on a SATA 2.0 motherboard and notice a huge performance increase. I have the exact same motherboard and recently (like last Friday) ordered myself the Mushkin Enhanced Chronos 480GB because I'm tired of putting off my build. It isn't the fastest, and it isn't the slowest, but given I had 3Gbps ports it didn't mean much. It is smoking fast. You'll probably tap out at 300MBps read speeds with any SSD these days, and come close to doing the same on the writes. At least with the drive I bought:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226254
This is what I'm getting with the same mobo but a lower end drive. Mind you I did NOT do a fresh install as I'm waiting for a new build and I couldn't get the re-alignment to work at all. I'd expect all the results to double if I did do a fresh install with aligned partitions.
Yes you can run a SATA 3.0 drive on a SATA 2.0 motherboard and notice a huge performance increase. I have the exact same motherboard and recently (like last Friday) ordered myself the Mushkin Enhanced Chronos 480GB because I'm tired of putting off my build. It isn't the fastest, and it isn't the slowest, but given I had 3Gbps ports it didn't mean much. It is smoking fast. You'll probably tap out at 300MBps read speeds with any SSD these days, and come close to doing the same on the writes. At least with the drive I bought:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226254
This is what I'm getting with the same mobo but a lower end drive. Mind you I did NOT do a fresh install as I'm waiting for a new build and I couldn't get the re-alignment to work at all. I'd expect all the results to double if I did do a fresh install with aligned partitions.
I have the P5Q WS board which in essence is the same board, and I have been running the Gen 1 Intel 80gb drive for years now and love it. Unless you are trying to do bulk file transfers the majority of the read/write numbers don't mean anything to you. The biggest area of concern is the random IOPs the drive can handle. When you are booting up the OS is reading lots of little files.
Bottom line it will work and you just about can't go wrong with any SSD that was made in the last two years.
Bottom line it will work and you just about can't go wrong with any SSD that was made in the last two years.
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Since 2009 I am using a G1 80GB Intel SSD on a P5Q PRO on my linux based HTPC main recording machine. It's probably been powered down for less than 2 total hours since I have installed the SSD in 2009. No problems at all and Intel says the drive has 96% life left in it.