Checking Sata Drive Speed


  1. Posts : 94
    Windows 7 Premium 64 Bit
       #1

    Checking Sata Drive Speed


    I have the sata drive installed but when trying to check for Sata 2 Speed I cannot find a way to verify I am getting the full 3 Gbit/s? I have used differant programs but none seem to give me a direct answer. Is there a way to verify the speed without disturbing the current data?

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  2. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #2

    Hello Rockit,

    You could use the program HD Tune as in the first post at the link below to see what you HDD's performance is. I would doubt that your HDD is actually using the full 3Gbit/s bandwidth of the SATA 2 port. That's just the maximum speed (bandwidth) that SATA 2 provides. You'll have to check the HDD's specs to see what it's read/write speeds actually are.

    Show us your hard drive performance

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn
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  3. Posts : 26,861
    Windows 11 Pro
       #3

    Shawn is right. ATTO is another good program to rate the speed, but there is no mechanical hard drive that can do 3 Gb/s. Only in the last year or so have SSDs been able to break that barrier.
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  4. Posts : 1,653
    Windows 10 Pro. EFI boot partition, full EFI boot
       #4

    It will be hard to distinguish between 1.5 Gb/s and 3 Gb/s by measuring the hard drive speed. 1.5 Gb/s can do top of 150 MB/s so you may see 100 MB/s on it, but that is also around the speed of ordinary SATA disk drives, so how can your tell?

    In any case, as already mentioned, you won't see the 3Gb/s, but if you still want to know what transfer mode the drive is using, CrystalDiskInfo seems to be able to distinguish the mode. I have a 6 GB/s SSD and hard drives on SATA 6Gb/s ports and 3GB/s hard drives on 3Gb/s ports.. CrystalDiskInfo shows the transfer mode for the 6GB/s drives as SATA/600 and the 3 Gb/s drives as SATA/300.

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  5. Posts : 94
    Windows 7 Premium 64 Bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Thank You Everyone !

    I finally ran HD Tach after setting it up to be run as XP 3 compatible and was the easyest one for me to understand. I will try the other programs later.

    Thank you again !
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