Optical drives operating at sata 1 speed 1.5gb/s

Hi,

I have three optical drives, connected to sata 2 ports on my Z68X-UD3R mobo.

A LG DVD Drive GH22NS30, Firmware v2.00, added 2009
A LG Bluray writer BH10LS30 firmware v1.00, added 2010
A LiteOn Bluray writer iHBS212 2 firmware 5L09, added 2011

According to my Intel rapid storage technology application these are all running at 1.5gb/s.

Shouldn't these be running at 3.0gb/s, sata 2 speed?

If so, any ideas on how I could get them to run at sata 2?

Or is it typical of optical drives to run at 1.5gb/s

thanks
Tanya

SATA is backwards compatible. I think these are SATA 1 devices, but would have to double check to be sure

Lemur said:

SATA is backwards compatible. I think these are SATA 1 devices, but would have to double check to be sure

Good damnit!! It took a while to track down the specs, LG don't like to publish their specs... But you are right. They are SATA 1 devices.

I figured, since they were so new that they would at least be sata 2.

My bad. Sorry for wasting everyone's time.

No problem. We're just volunteers who like to help others!

Take care...

I've been reading up on drives for the last few hours, and even drives as much as $400 are all still using sata 1. Interesting that in this day and age, optical technology seems to be so far behind. Anyway, nuff said.