I would like to buy a new main hard drive. I want to use this drive to boot Windows 7. I have 2 other large hard drives to store games and apps.
I currently have the BFG 680i mobo with a Q6600 CPU and I don't plan on upgrading it for a while, even though I would love to upgrade . My intention was to buy a SSD, but I was reading that my motherboard doesn't have AHCI. Would I be able to use a SSD disk anyway? Would the SSD performance decrease?
My other option is to find a SATA 2.0 (3GB/s) hard disk. I did not find any recent benchmart chart on 3.5'' internal SATA 2.0 drives. What are the fastest drives out there that I could buy? I am looking for performance, limited to what my current hardware is able to handle.
In case I cannot use a SSD, would a Segate Barracuda .12 be a good choice?
Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks.
I currently have the BFG 680i mobo with a Q6600 CPU and I don't plan on upgrading it for a while, even though I would love to upgrade . My intention was to buy a SSD, but I was reading that my motherboard doesn't have AHCI. Would I be able to use a SSD disk anyway? Would the SSD performance decrease?
My other option is to find a SATA 2.0 (3GB/s) hard disk. I did not find any recent benchmart chart on 3.5'' internal SATA 2.0 drives. What are the fastest drives out there that I could buy? I am looking for performance, limited to what my current hardware is able to handle.
In case I cannot use a SSD, would a Segate Barracuda .12 be a good choice?
Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks.