While the specs here say it supports SATA III, the Orico site says otherwise. Can anyone confirm 6Gbps support?
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All this switch does is switch the power. Doesn't a SATA III drive use the same type of power connector? The specifics of the drive do not matter to this switch.
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These switches are for the power connection only and have no relevance to data. The data connection does not run through these switches. Your data connection depends on the hard drive and the motherboard (or SATA card) to which they are connected.
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You are correct (and previous answer is not). The drive interface is 6Gb/sec (that's gigabits per second), as it says on the label. This is the standard speed of Sata3. This translates to roughly 600MB/sec - plenty enough to carry the quoted 550 MB/ sec the drive is capable of.
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Probably because it doesn't really matter. SATA 6 Gb/s is just marketing for a mechanical drive. No mechanical HDD can even saturate the SATA 3 Gb/s spec.
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If you mean the SATA version support, it looks like it is Sata 3. The drives I have connected to this unit are showing 5.8Gb/s speeds.
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SATA 3.0 and 3.1 support up to 6Gbit/s. The older SATA 2.0 only supports up to 3Gbit/s. SATA 3 is backwards compatible to SATA 2 but you will be limited to the SATA 2 speed.
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It is SATA II, the previous response is incorrect. SATA II = 3 GB/s, SATA III = 6 GB/s. SATA III is backward-compatible to SATA II but limited to the speed of the SATA II port.
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The adaptor is compatible with PCIE 1.0 and 2.0 specifications (2.5 and 5GHz signaling, 250 and 500MB/s data rate), however the maximum data rate in the PCIE 1.0 connection will be limited at 250MB/s for a SATA III device.Note that the (supported) SATA signaling is 1.5, 3.0 and 6.0GHz (150, 300 and 600MB/s), different from PCIE data rates. Obviously the lower of the two, in any combination, will apply.
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it supports full Sata III with USB3.0 but 3Gbs with esata cable..... which is what i use. It is very fast and by far the best Hard Drive Enclosure for 2.5-Inch hard drive i have ever used bar none !
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It turns out the SATA port is just a pass through for the eSata port on the outside of the card. There is no built in SATA port on this board.
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I'm running it on a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R mainboard. This week I attached a 250Gb EVO ssd to the IO Crest and the Samsung Magician software is reporting it as a SATA 3 (6Gb/s) interface. My drive benchmarks at 428 (sequential read), 57935 iops (random) and 402 (sequential write), 24716 iops (random), now well below the 540 / 520 max indicated. The drive has slightly better than 50% freespace.
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I'm looking for a cable right now and just finished doing research and there is no difference in speeds between different cables. "No performance difference between SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 6Gb/s cables." "SATA revision designator on cables is mostly just marketing and has no bearing on the actual performance the cable can provide." http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/SATA-3Gb-s-vs-6Gb-s-Cable-Performance-Revisited-183/
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Previous helpers don't understand the question, SATA 3 6GB/S is a data cable.... You don't need to buy any special power cable, recent power supply, come with these connectors. Wouldn't be healthy for your new HDD, if you are planning to use an old or low quality power supply
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I wondered the same thing when I bought it since I wanted to be certain of this. The manufacturer said it was "compatible" with SATA III, but that does not necessarily mean anything. The external interface is USB 3.0 and limtied to 5Gbits/sec max throughput, of course. Anyway, after testing with a fast 3.5" 7200 disk drive, I came to the conclusion that the drive internally is running at max performance for its platter write speeds - as you can see from my reported review. Unless I were to check with an SSD, I would not be certain of the interface, but my educated guess is that it is is an internal SATA III interface ... hope that helps!
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1- supports sata 3 up to 6Gbps. Backward compatible to sata 2 (3Gbps) and sata1 (1.5Gbps) specification. 2- No! This is an all in one unit. I'm using 2 64GB SSD drivers and set it up in a raid . It speed up your computer 100x better. It almost instantly the changes to the next window. I like this setup and it is in a nice package.
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Yes, but why use this old card now for RAID? The SATA supports only 150 MB/s. Most new drives will be SATA III, 6Gb/s or up to 550 GB/s. Just my $0.02 worth.
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I think this indicates the type of SATA interface speed. There's SATA I (1.5GB/s), SATA II (3.0GB/s), and SATA III (6.0GB/s). The higher the SATA interface, the greater the potential bandwidth throughput it can support.
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It's the same connection as a 2tb, it's SATA3, any windows 7 or 8 will compatible, the major spec you have to look is your motherboard, it has to be a uefi compatible board to go beyond the 2tb limit, if it's a recent motherboard it probably is, just check your manufacturer and model to be 100%. Search for: 3tb and uefi motherboards.Hope this helps