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I'm at a crossroads. I'm upgrading my system and a lot of the boards I can afford come with 2xSATA3 and 4xSATA2 ports.
I have 3 drives in my computer. An OS drive, and 2x RAID drives for data. I plan to get a new OS drive, a 60gb SSD SATA3. So having at least one SATA3 port is a must. But while I'm upgrading, I'm wondering if getting more than 2xSATA3 ports would be future proofing myself. Or, is it impossible for regular 7200 RPM drives to take advantage of SATA3's speed? If so, I'll bury that idea all together and just worry about SATA3 for the OS and SATA2 for data drives.
EDIT - further reading suggests non-SSD drives aren't even capable to hit SATA2, let alone SATA3. That said, it should present me with a decent setup. An SSD on SATA3 for OS, and 2x1TB RAID for data on SATA2 that they can't even max out. Parts ordered. Now we wait...
I have 3 drives in my computer. An OS drive, and 2x RAID drives for data. I plan to get a new OS drive, a 60gb SSD SATA3. So having at least one SATA3 port is a must. But while I'm upgrading, I'm wondering if getting more than 2xSATA3 ports would be future proofing myself. Or, is it impossible for regular 7200 RPM drives to take advantage of SATA3's speed? If so, I'll bury that idea all together and just worry about SATA3 for the OS and SATA2 for data drives.
EDIT - further reading suggests non-SSD drives aren't even capable to hit SATA2, let alone SATA3. That said, it should present me with a decent setup. An SSD on SATA3 for OS, and 2x1TB RAID for data on SATA2 that they can't even max out. Parts ordered. Now we wait...