Storage Solutions How to find out if my Dell Inspiron 1525 is SATA II or SATA III?

[BikeAdvice]

I want to find out the SATA capability of my laptop. How to do it?

My Chipset is Intel GM965 - Rev C0

 

[pratikb]

Its sata 2 for sure

 

[vivek.krishnan]

SATA II 100%. Also telling us about the northbridge is not going to be of any use, as the southbridge, ICH8M/E in this case, is the chip with the SATA ports.

More info on the SB: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/datasheet/intel-io-controller-hub-8-datasheet.pdf

 

[paddydevil]

i have sony vaio vpceb34en which has intel hm55 express chipset..

is it sata 1/2/3??

 

[vivek.krishnan]

SATA II mostly. But will check and find out.

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From http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/datasheet/5-chipset-3400-chipset-datasheet.pdf

Integrated Serial ATA Host Controller

— Up to six SATA ports

— Data transfer rates up to 3.0 Gb/s

(300 MB/s).

— Integrated AHCI controller

 

[paddydevil]

if mine is sata 2 then no point going for corsair force gt series?>?

 

[BikeAdvice]

I have upgraded mine with 64GB Kingston SSD. 220 Mbps read speed

 

[uziel]

Try the Sandralite and see if it helps from SiSoftware Zone

 

[gcbeldar]

I think, So Far Any Notebook Manufacture announced "Notebook with SATA III HDD"

 

[vivek.krishnan]

I think, So Far Any Notebook Manufacture announced "Notebook with SATA III HDD"

All the new SSD are 2.5", they can fit in notebooks. Also SATA III is there with SNB machines. So its a matter of just replacing the device.

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if mine is sata 2 then no point going for corsair force gt series?>?

If you have use for a SSD go for it. IMO, it will not saturate the SATA II link completely ~ 3Gbps OR [STRIKE]375[/STRIKE] 300 MBps max.

 

[Crazy_Eddy]

SATA II link completely ~ 3Gbps OR 375 MBps max.

Its 3Gbps or 300MBps. SATA uses an 8b/10b encoding scheme.

 

[vivek.krishnan]

Depends.. quite a few SandyBridge systems still use the crippled H61 chipset.

Its 3Gbps or 300MBps. SATA uses an 8b/10b encoding scheme.

Oh yeah, forgot about that! Thanks.

H61 even in the mobile platforms?

 

[Crazy_Eddy]

Oops, there's no H(M)61 in the mobile segment :ashamed:

 

[vivek.krishnan]

Oops, there's no H(M)61 in the mobile segment :ashamed:

So, we are even on that score