Solved SSD Boot drive running in SATA2

[Bernardus]

If I look up the performance of the SSD, my drive inspector tells me that the SSD runs in SATA 2 instead of SATA 3. Probably because of HDD performance?
I checked the Bios settings.
But still can't change that to SATA 3?
The drive is in perfect condition, no errors.

The only thing I can think of may be the boot partition, which is always some 100MB. (always full)

It there a way to force Bios to SATA3?
The boot drive is a 500 GB SSD.

 

[flavallee]

A detailed description of the SSD and the motherboard in your computer would be helpful.
It's possible the SSD in your computer is not a SATA3 model.
It's also possible the motherboard in your computer does not have SATA3 ports.

 

[torchwood]

Hi

That motherboard only supports SATAII


Motherboard ASRock G41MH/USB3.

Roy

 

[flavallee]

Roy:

I was getting ready to ask you where you got the motherboard description from, but then I saw the faintly viewable "My System Specs" link in the lower left corner of the window - something that I've never noticed before.

Frank

 

[TechnoMage2016]

I put a SATAIII capable SSD in an older Laptop that only has a SATA I port on the mobo.
The SSD Dashboard is constantly reminding me that if I'd put the SSD on a SATA III port, it would run a lot faster. Really?


But for an older laptop that was given to me as Broken, Kaput and non-repairable, it runs Windows 7 Pro, X86, pretty dang well.

 

[Bernardus]

Thanks for the reply, there was some confusion about the Bios settings.
Many reported that it hardly made the PC faster.
My SSD didn't much better than the HD.
Run both on my PC, left the second W7 in the older HD.
it's entirely dependent on the processing-speed if you'll notice any quicker start-up for example.
If it's a bit faster is hardly to notice. Access time of a SSD will be much faster of course.
But only large volumes and massive data movements will profit from that advantage.
A guy who works professionally has a pc that start-up in a couple of seconds.
My older PC can't even handle HD 2160 video from YT.
SSDIII is backward compatible.