Question How are MSATA SSD's faster/better then SATA SSD's when MSATA's have an average read speed of 3000mb/s when SATA's are 6gb/s?!?!? I'M SO CONFUSED!!!!

[ZGlaze]

Really confused and would really appreciate some help. Also was thinking of getting this SSD is it good??

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...ot_vpn100_512gm28h_vpn100_512gb_m_2_2280.html

 

[USAFRet]

Because that is NOT a "mSATA" drive.

That is an NVMe drive. Significantly faster.
"PCIe Gen 3 x4, NVMe 1.3 Interface "

 

[USAFRet]

What motherboard do you have?
What do you use this system for?
What other drives are in the system?

 

[ZGlaze]

What motherboard do you have?
What do you use this system for?
What other drives are in the system?

Asus ROG Strix B450-F gaming
Windows 10 home
Gaming, browing and school work

 

[USAFRet]

That drive will work, but you may not see any real difference over a regular SATA drive, in that usage.

 

[ZGlaze]

That drive will work, but you may not see any real difference over a regular SATA drive, in that usage.

But it will be faster then a normal 2.5in SATA SSD??

 

[USAFRet]

But it will be faster then a normal 2.5in SATA SSD??

That's what I meant...probably not a real user facing difference over a standard 2.5" SATA III SSD.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

It is much faster, but it wont affect a typical gamer much.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Random operations will be MINIMALLY faster, if at all.

Transfers from that drive to a similar drive, will be MUCH faster, but if you transfer files to or from another drive with that drive, it will still be limited to the speed of the slower drive.

For gaming, it will MAYBE see a small bump in speed when loading maps, levels, textures or when saving game data IF you have the game files on that drive. If your game files are on another drive, then you will see no difference in speed whatsoever.

Windows itself, will probably see faster boot times, if you think shaving off two seconds from the amount of time it takes to boot is worth spending more money for, and might randomly see some minimal speed increases when it comes to things like writing the system restore image periodically or for virtual memory, browser cache or program installations. But it's not going to be enough for you to go "WOW" unless you are transferring NVME to NVME drive.

 

[Glenwing]

3000 MB/s = 3 GB/s = 24 Gbit/s, which is much higher than 6 Gbit/s.

 

[USAFRet]

3000 MB/s = 3 GB/s = 24 Gbit/s, which is much higher than 6 Gbit/s.

Yes, this is true.

Just like a Ferrari is much faster than a Fiat.

But if you're just going down to the store (or 'Gaming, browing and school work ')...you'll not see that speed difference.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Ferrari is much faster than a Fiat.

At least they aren't owned by the same conglomerate...

 

[Glenwing]

Yes, this is true.

Just like a Ferrari is much faster than a Fiat.

But if you're just going down to the store (or 'Gaming, browing and school work ')...you'll not see that speed difference.

Agreed, I was just answering the main question (why are the 3000 MB/s SSDs supposedly faster than SATA if SATA is 6 Gbps), which seems to be a mixup of bits and bytes, at least that was my interpretation.