SATA 6Gb/s but current 3.0 Gb/s

[Paul Smith]

Dear All,

I have now a new disk running on my machine

Model Family:     Western Digital Caviar Green (AF, SATA 6Gb/s)
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)

Why is not my disk with

current: 3.0 Gb/s

?

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

[Reindl Harald]

Am 23.06.2013 23:28, schrieb Paul Smith:
> I have now a new disk running on my machine
>
> Model Family:     Western Digital Caviar Green (AF, SATA 6Gb/s)
> SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
>
> Why is not my disk with
>
> current: 3.0 Gb/s

because it is most liekly connected to a port which only
supports 3.0 Gb/s, on HP 8200/8300 Elite Minitowers as
example you have 4 internal SATA connectors and only two
of them are 6.0 Gb/s, two are 3.0 Gb/s and if you act
careless and connect a disk to the 5th obe which is for
the optical drive you have only 1.5 Gb/s

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/24/13 05:28, Paul Smith wrote:
> I have now a new disk running on my machine
>
> Model Family:     Western Digital Caviar Green (AF, SATA 6Gb/s)
> SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
>
> Why is not my disk with
>
> current: 3.0 Gb/s
>
> Any ideas?

Is the SATA controller on your motherboard capable of that speed/SATA version?

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Ed Greshko  wrote:
> > I have now a new disk running on my machine
> >
> > Model Family:     Western Digital Caviar Green (AF, SATA 6Gb/s)
> > SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
> >
> > Why is not my disk with
> >
> > current: 3.0 Gb/s
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Is the SATA controller on your motherboard capable of that speed/SATA version?

Thanks to both for your replies. I am not sure whether my motherborad
is capable of SATA 6.0 Gb/s. How can I determine that?

Paul

[Digimer]

On 06/23/2013 05:39 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Ed Greshko  wrote:
> > > I have now a new disk running on my machine
> > >
> > > Model Family:     Western Digital Caviar Green (AF, SATA 6Gb/s)
> > > SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
> > >
> > > Why is not my disk with
> > >
> > > current: 3.0 Gb/s
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > Is the SATA controller on your motherboard capable of that speed/SATA version?
>
> Thanks to both for your replies. I am not sure whether my motherborad
> is capable of SATA 6.0 Gb/s. How can I determine that?
>
> Paul

It will say in your mainboard's manual. Often time, on two ports will be 
SATA3 and the bulk will be SATA2. In my experience, usually the SATA2 
are black headers and SATA3 are blue, but that is certainly not a 
standard. Again, you manual or mainboard's quick reference guide will 
tell you.

[Matysek]

No matters, hows capable or which port/controller is used, because
mechanical sata hdds will never fill limits of sata2 capacity. Sata3
ports are most commonly used for fast SSD.

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Ed Greshko  wrote:
> On 06/24/13 05:28, Paul Smith wrote:
> > I have now a new disk running on my machine
> >
> > Model Family:     Western Digital Caviar Green (AF, SATA 6Gb/s)
> > SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
> >
> > Why is not my disk with
> >
> > current: 3.0 Gb/s
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Is the SATA controller on your motherboard capable of that speed/SATA version?
>
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