[SOLVED] Old Motherboard to support SSD through PIC SATA (Is this possible?)

[ws3li]

Hi,

I currently have a very old motherboard and have recently bought an SSD. I then realized that my motherboard only supports 3Gbs SATA connection so it will bottleneck the SSD.

I have the following motherboard: ASUS M5A78L-M PLUS
Looking to buy a PCIE card for SATA 6Gbs connector: SYBA SI-PEX40089 PCI-Express 2.0 2-port SATA III, PCI-E, x1, Revision 2.0
I have this SSD: Kingston Digital A400 SSD 120GB SATA 3 2.5"

I am looking to install one SSD for each port. One will be for booting Windows 10 OS and one for storing data.

Can someone please let me know if this will be compatible? If not, can you provide me a PCIE card that may work? Or any other alternatives to take advantage of the SSD full feed on my old motherboard.

Thank you

Thank you

 

[vapour]

will be fine for storage but maybe not for OS.
I will just plug it into the sata ports directly. You will still notice a huge diff and you may not feel the hit to that 3Gb/s ceiling as you are worried now.