I know this is nitpicky and rather insane but i have a sata 3 hard drive using a sata 3 cable plugged into a sata 3 controller and windows only rates my HDD transfer rate as 5.9 (eg sata 2) and i know this is nitpicky but what do i need to do to fix that
Oh no i didnt read that. Nope mine is a non solid state drive
Actually, 5.9 is pretty good for a HDD. Most are lower--Around 5.4. What is the model number? I wouldn't mind having a couple of those for video/music file storage. If you have a USB thumb drive that's fast, you might look into using one for ReadyBoost. Windows will store most used files on it and speed up access.
Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 is the Hardware ID
I have a Hitachi 2GB Sata 3 drive
AS mentioned, 5.9 is the most you will see with a mechanical HD.
SATA 3 interface isn't really even needed for them, as they can not even saturate SATA 2 bandwidth much less 3.
Not exactly sure why they make mechanical drives as SATA 3, since the ports are backwards compatable anyway.
That is indeed a good question. I think it is a sales gimmick. Mechanical drives cannot even saturate 50% of Sata2. The best ones do 1Gb/sec. Not sure though how these hybrids feed the channel.Not exactly sure why they make mechanical drives as SATA 3, since the ports are backwards compatable anyway.
My mistake yes 2TB
and I dont know either mostlikely it is a sales gimmick or forced standardization
I only bought the drive because it was 2TB and my only options were Sata 3
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