Hi there,
I'm hoping to purchase a new Samsung EVO 850 1TB "SATA 3" SSD and have it installed into my 8 year old computer.
The motherboard I have in this computer is an ASUS P8H61-M and it has four SATA 2 (3GB) ports. Two of these SATA ports are occupied by the DVD Disk Drive and a Seagate Barracuda 1 TB drive.
As it is an old enough motherboard it does not have any SATA 3 ports. I could of course install the new SSD into my computer and connect it to one of the remaining SATA 2 ports but I've read that I will only appreciate maybe over half the speed that I would have been able to get from the SSD if I could connect the SSD to a Sata 3 (6GB) port.
I was hoping to fix this problem by buying a "Syba SATA III 4 Port PCI-e x1 Controller Card" on Amazon and slide it into one of my free PCI-E x1 ports and then connect the Samsung SSD into one of the SATA 3 ports on the adaptor.
Is there anything wrong that you can think of with what I've described above? Is it this straightforward or should there be something I need to worry about before making my purchase of both the SSD and the Syba adaptor.
Any helpful information that you could kindly provide would be greatly appreciated!
Kind regards,
Brendan
I'm hoping to purchase a new Samsung EVO 850 1TB "SATA 3" SSD and have it installed into my 8 year old computer.
The motherboard I have in this computer is an ASUS P8H61-M and it has four SATA 2 (3GB) ports. Two of these SATA ports are occupied by the DVD Disk Drive and a Seagate Barracuda 1 TB drive.
As it is an old enough motherboard it does not have any SATA 3 ports. I could of course install the new SSD into my computer and connect it to one of the remaining SATA 2 ports but I've read that I will only appreciate maybe over half the speed that I would have been able to get from the SSD if I could connect the SSD to a Sata 3 (6GB) port.
I was hoping to fix this problem by buying a "Syba SATA III 4 Port PCI-e x1 Controller Card" on Amazon and slide it into one of my free PCI-E x1 ports and then connect the Samsung SSD into one of the SATA 3 ports on the adaptor.
Is there anything wrong that you can think of with what I've described above? Is it this straightforward or should there be something I need to worry about before making my purchase of both the SSD and the Syba adaptor.
Any helpful information that you could kindly provide would be greatly appreciated!
Kind regards,
Brendan