[citation][nom]Cons29[/nom]i haven't looked into benchies of mechanical hdd's. i have a rather old ssd and 2 mechanical ones. just a curious question, is there a difference in performance between sata2 and sata3 when using mechanical hard drives?[/citation]
The SATA versions isn't a big deal for general hard drive usage (only the cache can make use of it, not the actual platters because the platters just aren't fast enough). However, newer hard drives with higher dnesity and such tend to get newer SATA versions, so a SATA3 7.2KRPM hard drive can beat a SATA2 7.2KRPM hard drive significantly, just not because of the SATA version difference.