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Is it worth to get a SATA-3 controller to max my SSD out?

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I have an OCZ Agility 3 on a Gygabyte GA-P55-UD5 (it only has native SATA-2 support, not SATA-3). I have to admit performance is already interesting but should be half of total possibilities. I've discussed about this with my hardware vendor, and he said that it would be almost useless to upgrade m…

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I would say, without a doubt, yes. SATA-III has a maximum throughput of 6.0 Gb/s, while SATA-II has a maximum throughput of 3.0 Gb/s. If we take into account the fact that both use 8b/10b encoding, both buses max out at a reasonable 600 MB/s and 300…

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