[SOLVED] is it ok for a laptop hard drive or ssd to run at 1.5Gb/s?

[Lil’bertz]

im planning to upgrade my laptop's old mech hard drive to a ssd and the old hdd will be put at the cd drive caddy so i can still use it as mass storage. but the hwinfo64 said that the the cd drive is sata 1.5Gb/s.
will accessing files be slower?

 

[Lutfij]

Make and model of your laptop? An SKU will help us understand your SATA port speeds, two fold.

Also, the speed you're seeing is the max speed that the optical drive in your laptop can operate.

 

[Lil’bertz]

Make and model of your laptop? An SKU will help us understand your SATA port speeds, two fold.

Also, the speed you're seeing is the max speed that the optical drive in your laptop can operate.

its an asus s550ca

 

[Maxxify]

S550CA uses the HM76 chipset, based on Panther Point. It should have at least one 6Gbps port and the second port should be 6Gbps or 3Gbps, not 1.5Gbps. I actually have a laptop from that era with the HM77 and the CD caddy port is 3Gbps. It hurts sequentials primarily, however a HDD would be fine with 3Gbps and probably even 1.5Gbps.

 

[popatim]

HDD's and even SSD's will run fine at 1.5

 

[Lil’bertz]

ill mark replies above best answers

 

[USAFRet]

Will it hurt the drive to run at that speed? No.
Will it hurt your sensibilities to run an SSD at that speed? Probably...