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That is one of the fastest 2.5" drives out there. I have three of them and have been happy with their speed.
A link leading to a HDD specs page tells us noting about your laptop. Just because a laptop is rated for SATA III doesn't mean it will run at FULL SATA III speeds; it just means it will run faster than SATA II.
That is pure bunk. The slowest SSD will be the holy hairy heck out of the fastest HDD and do so with less noise (actually, no noise) and use far less power. Also, SSDs are now far more reliable than HDDs. The only area where HDDs still reign, for now, is in more storage capacity than SSDs for the same price and, in the case of 3.5" HDDs, far more storage capacity per SATA connection than SSDs currently can deliver (for 2.5" drives, 1TB is the max for both HDDs and SSDs).
I was referring to the time discussion - 25 minutes versus 40 minutes. If you continue working whilst the image is being written, it does not really matter. That was my point.
1. I have found that Esata and Sata II/Sata III ports are completely different. You can't mix and match Esata and Sata II and Sata III cables; their connectors are completely different.
2. I would like some one show me a hard drive that can reach the speeds of a quality SSD.
3. Today's SSD's last as long as any hard drive. One can Google that and read for days if you really want to.
4. The term Up To Speeds is very deceiving. Whether the speeds you get is matching that Up To Speeds speeds varies a lot according to your hardware and what type of data is being transferred.
My USB III and Esata speeds are the same (close enough) on this system when using a external SSD for backups.
Neither reach the Up To Max Speed but close.
If one is using quality hardware and proper programs what ever speed you get is what you get.
As far as I know their is no magic one can do to speed things to reach the max speed if the hardware and programs used don't get you there.
Sata III claims Up To 6.0 speeds. Your millage may vary. For sure it should be faster that Sata II.
A hard drive won't be able to completely use the speed of a Sata II port. Plugging a hard drive into a Sata III port is a waste of a Sata III port. If that is the only choice one has then plug the hard drive into the Sata III port it won't hurt anything. It will just work at the speed of the hard drive and no more.
Again, folks, in real life, there are no SATA I, SATA II, and SATA III cables; they all function the same. The different names are a marketing ploy for charging more for a cable that is essentially identical to a less expensive one. Maximum PC did a test on various cables to prove this. You can read more on the subject here.