jmke

SATA 2 does not exist

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Faiakes

What do you mean?

jmke

there is no such thing as SATA-II or SATA-III
SATA150 / SATA300 exist.

SATA2 or SATA3 are incorrectly used and are not official.

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2450

to come back to your should be SATA300 system and I agree partly; yes with a newer system the Vertex SSD will perform better, but even in a system where the bottleneck is SATA 150 controller, you will notice a difference; maximum transfer is nice, but low latency and extremely high multi I/O performance of these SSD give the biggest boosts; to older systems will always benefit from a storage medium upgrade

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macgizmoguy

That's an unfortunately under researched and documented point: SATA I is out there in millions of laptops and desktops. While one can drool over all the "Peak" Sequential Read data specs of the latest SSD models, at what point does REAL-WORLD use start to truly max out a SATA I controller???

I've yet to encounter any of the deep-geek reviews talking about the issue of precisely when SATA I controllers become a bottle-neck -- Or exactly which drives are best suited for SATA I limitations.

I bought an OCZ SOLID series value drive for my old Intel MacBook - dirt cheap. Should I have paid up for a Apex or a Vertex? Would it have been 'worth' it???

MacGizmoGuy

jmke

yup, random IO of Vertex is a lot higher than solid series; resulting in a lot more responsive system

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