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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: yashoshah on November 07, 2012, 04:18:36 pm
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Hi
My MB is GA-H57M-USB3
I want to upgrade my HDD to SATA 3.0 SSD.
In order to take the full benefit of SSD performance i want to add SATA 3.0 card on PCI (as the MB has only SATA 2 ports).
Suggest any good PCI SATA 3.0 card compatible with this MB.
Also, is it a good idea to implement on existing MB? or should I go for MB upgrade?
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Just use the SSD on your SATA II port. You will be pleasantly surprised how fast it is. You can then use the SSD on your next upgrade if you choose, but it won't be as noticeable as going from HDD to SSD.
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Your SSD won't b e limited by SATA-2 performance, unless you work with very large files, like 1080p HD movies.
Small file performance isn't even remotely close to SATA-2 max performance, and this what 99% of your files you have (if not 100%), on your system, including games. So you will not see any benefits with a SATA-3 card, unless, as mentioned, you work with very large files. BTW, if you are thinking: "Well I have Blu-ray backups or 1080p movies on my system, and I play them", video players stream the content from your SSD, so you will not see any performance increase there as well.
So get your favorite SATA-3 SSD (I recommend synchronous ones as not only they are faster, their benchmarks reflects more real world results, but also they support significantly high amount of writes over asynchronous memory based SSDs (that is they warranty is 5 years, and not 1 to 3 years)
So that means SSDs like:
-> OCZ Vertex 4
-> Corsair Force GT series
-> Corsair Neutron GT series
-> Samsung 830 series
-> Intel 520 series
to name a few.