SSD upgrade very quick

[plexmann]

I have a Toshiba satellite pro notebook which has an intel(r) 7 series/c216 chipset family sata ahci controller. Can anyone confirm whether this controller is sata 2 or sata 3. Judging by the speed in which it boots would indicate sata 3, with a Sata3 SSD installed it takes 20 seconds to boot, but it came with a sata 2 HDD installed creating the confusion

 

[Cons29]

if i were you i would not worry much (unless you will really really use the speed of the ssd in the applications that you use)
if it's boot, then a few seconds should not be a big deal yes?
my old sata2 can boot at 13sec after the beep.

 

[kanewolf]

SATA 2 or SATA 3 is insignificant compared to the performance improvement an SSD brings to a standard 5400 RPM laptop disk. Even if you "only" get 250MB/s off an SSD that is still 5X what a typical laptop disk does. And the seek latency of 5400 RPM is orders of magnitude worse.

 

[ss202sl]

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/7-series-chipset-pch-datasheet.html

 

[plexmann]

if i were you i would not worry much (unless you will really really use the speed of the ssd in the applications that you use)
if it's boot, then a few seconds should not be a big deal yes?
my old sata2 can boot at 13sec after the beep.

 

[plexmann]

Firstly, thank for your quick response, however it is the specification (sata2 or sata3) I was enquiring about

 

[ss202sl]

Sata 3 - look at the specs - in the link I posted above.

 

[plexmann]

Sata 3 - look at the specs - in the link I posted above.

Thanks but not enough convincing evidence of much there. That's the second time gone over that one.