After completing my home built system, there's one last thing that I'm conscious of needing to upgrade fairly soon.
My PC currently sports a horribly old 168GB HDD that is slow, noisy and all round inefficient. So I first started looking into an SSD as a replacement, maybe something like 120GB SSD. But I only wanted one to combat the slow issue. However, I recently thought about it more and realised that maybe what I needed was a high capacity, fast, HDD. This way I could get the high capacity I very much need for all of my games and software but also possibly get the speed of an SSD. I also heard that HDDs last longer than SSDs and SSDs are ultimately not worth what you pay.
So, my next task was to go onto my motherboard manufactorers page and see what SATA version I have, turns out it's "Sata 3Gb/s". So then I started looking around for HDDs. Found one that stuck out, a 1TB WD Caviar Black WD1002FAEX. It's an awesome size compared to what I'm running and, as stated in the specs, runs at 6Gb/s.
So here's my overall question, if I put this 6Gb/s HDD into my 3Gb/s machine, will it ensure I get a solid 3Gb/s read and write speed all of the time as it's double what my motherboard allows?
Full PC Specs:
AMD FX-4100 @ 3.6Ghz
16GB DDR3 RAM @ 1333Hz
Asus 560 Ti DIRECTCUII @ 930Hz
Asus M5A78L-M/USB3
Ps. In order to cut out the slavish unhelpful comments, I know little about HDDs and would appreciate it if you could refrain from abuse as seen so often in this forum.
My PC currently sports a horribly old 168GB HDD that is slow, noisy and all round inefficient. So I first started looking into an SSD as a replacement, maybe something like 120GB SSD. But I only wanted one to combat the slow issue. However, I recently thought about it more and realised that maybe what I needed was a high capacity, fast, HDD. This way I could get the high capacity I very much need for all of my games and software but also possibly get the speed of an SSD. I also heard that HDDs last longer than SSDs and SSDs are ultimately not worth what you pay.
So, my next task was to go onto my motherboard manufactorers page and see what SATA version I have, turns out it's "Sata 3Gb/s". So then I started looking around for HDDs. Found one that stuck out, a 1TB WD Caviar Black WD1002FAEX. It's an awesome size compared to what I'm running and, as stated in the specs, runs at 6Gb/s.
So here's my overall question, if I put this 6Gb/s HDD into my 3Gb/s machine, will it ensure I get a solid 3Gb/s read and write speed all of the time as it's double what my motherboard allows?
Full PC Specs:
AMD FX-4100 @ 3.6Ghz
16GB DDR3 RAM @ 1333Hz
Asus 560 Ti DIRECTCUII @ 930Hz
Asus M5A78L-M/USB3
Ps. In order to cut out the slavish unhelpful comments, I know little about HDDs and would appreciate it if you could refrain from abuse as seen so often in this forum.