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July 31st, 2011 17:00
What speed is my SATA?
I bought an Alienware Aurora computer 1 year ago. I just bought a SATA III (6.0 gps) SSD (solid state drive) and I'm getting SATA II speeds, so I'm thinking I have the older SATA II, but I can't find any info on my motherboard. Hope you can help me.
According to my Dell order, I have:
| 1 | 224-6493 | Alienware Aurora Desktop |
| 1 | 317-4184 | Overclocked Intel Core i7 980 Extreme 6C (3.6GHz, 12MB Cache) |
| 1 | 317-2668 | 24GB Triple Channel 1333MHz DDR3 |
Hopefully that's enough info to determine my motherboard. If not, what else can I provide?
Also, if it IS a SATA II board, is there anything I can ever do to get my SSD drive to run at 6.0 speeds?
Thanks.
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KelC
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July 31st, 2011 19:00
You probably have it hooked up to the wrong cable. I know for example now that the R3 has only 2x SATA III connections and the two preinstalled HD used them being slot 1 and 2, so i had to move those to 3 and 4 and put the SSD I got in Slot 1.
Orate pro nobis
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August 2nd, 2011 19:00
I am wanting to know the same thing as I am in a similar predicament. Your thoughts?
bobmarker
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August 2nd, 2011 21:00
Hmmm... I have my SSD connected to the slot 1.
DELL-Chris M
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August 3rd, 2011 10:00
Area-51, Aurora-R1, Aurora-R2 = SATA 1.1, 1.5Gbs and 3Gbs
Aurora-R3 = SATA 3.0, 6Gbs, backward compatible to 1.5GBs and 3Gbs
bobmarker
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August 3rd, 2011 11:00
Thanks. That helps. I can't tell from my paperwork what Alienware I have, if it's R1, R2, etc. Is there any way I can find this info somewhere? Thanks for your help!
Tesla1856
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August 3rd, 2011 13:00
You don't need paperwork. Look on the machine itself ... in Device Manager or use CPU-Z by CPUID.com .
If you have Intel X-58 chipset, it only supports SATA-II (3 Gb/s) . I doubt it's going to run much faster than that (no matter what interface it's connected to), but if you want to try, you can buy an add-in SATA-III (6 Gb/s) PCIe card:
www.newegg.com/.../ProductList.aspx
But you can only push so much data through a PCIe x1 slot. Actually, I surprised they even make these x1 slot cards because the slot is limited. Seems like you would need a x4 - x8 slot to handle 6Gb/s constant throughput.
jumperboi
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August 4th, 2011 03:00
I think you will still get the SATA II speed even if you install a SATA III PCIE card. Your system was bought 1 year ago and SATA III just came out last january 2009. Your system will probably support only SATA II so you will get SATA II speed on from your SSD even if it is SATA III.
morblore
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August 4th, 2011 21:00
Na, If you use an expansion card it will run at the 6gbs so long as it is used in a PCIe 2.0 slot which hes board has. I think the 1x slot runs expansion cards at 4GBs but the x16 will go to a full 6GBs. A PCIe 2.0 x16 slot can run up to 16GBs
Even the older PCIe 1.0 runs at 8GBs. Way more then enough. It's just like running a raid card.
hookon43
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August 23rd, 2011 09:00
How do you tell what one you have?
Lt_Rush3r
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November 12th, 2011 07:00
What about the Area 51 ALX ? The product info says me it has SATA III
demonk28
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March 8th, 2012 02:00
Most likely its sata II