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I currently have a 2010 Macbook Pro 13" with a 60GB Vertex2 (sandforce) SSD as a boot/apps drive and a 750GB spinning platter for my home directory (lots of VMs, photos, music, etc).
I've been thinking of upgrading the SSD for more space (might be able to migrate my home directory back onto the drive and instead keep the biggest content on the platter)... but I'm unsure whether it's worth my while to get a SATA III drive since my laptop doesn't support it.
Would my laptop see any speed benefit from a SATA III 6 Gbps SSD, or would the speed increase be negated because the laptop only supports SATA II?
1Your question is in danger of being closed, as it's very specific to your situation. I already edited your question to make it a bit more clear, but if you'd like to [edit] it yourself to make it more general, it's less likely to be closed. Changing it to be more along the lines of "would a computer with only SATA II benefit from a SATA III drive" and making it less specific to your computer model would make it a better question, that wouldn't be too localized. – nhinkle – 2011-08-16T19:22:42.170
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possible duplicate of Is it worth to get a SATA-3 controller to max my SSD out? Not an exact duplicate, but it covers literally the same material (benefits/drawbacks of using a SATA-3 SSD on a SATA-2 chipset) without being so localized. Also @r00fus, you might want to look at this question.
– Breakthrough – 2011-08-16T20:06:46.937@Breakthrough, I didn't see that as much duplicate as the discussion was more about adding the SATA3 controller, as opposed to the pro/cons of running a SATA3 drive on a SATA2 bus. Considering the costs of prev. generation drives (ie, Vertex2 240gb) haven't really come down, I'm probably going to just get a newer drive for when I do upgrade the laptop. – r00fus – 2011-08-18T04:19:15.920
@r00fus if you look at my answer to that question, I state, "Whether or not you notice the difference in those transfer rates depends on you as a user, and what your purposes for the drive are. Even if your drive was capped-out at 300 MB/s, it still has nearly zero seek time compared to a conventional mechanical hard disk, and that's what most users will primarily notice.".
– Breakthrough – 2011-08-18T10:19:54.367