[Questions] SATA 3 and 6 Gbps

[gamingpy]

I need you to clear up my doubt, is it possible to install a SATA 3 2.5 SSD and connect it to a SATA 6 port, or does the SSD have to be SATA 6? To be honest, I don't really understand this question and I recently bought a 120GB Corsair Forge SSD. And my doubts were that, sorry for the ignorance.

[gamingpy]

Well, I bring you some info that I found around.

Little by little we move forward, and SATA-IO (the organization responsible for developing SATA standards) has made public the final standard of SATA 3.0, which they prefer to call SATA 6 Gbit/s to, according to them, not create confusion.

SATA 6 Gbit/s or 3.0 will bring a theoretical speed of up to 6 Gbps, doubling the current 3 Gbps of the SATA2 standard. These are theoretical data that will not be reached by devices in practice, at least initially, but that will still improve the current interface very noticeably. Current storage devices are not yet using all the bandwidth that SATA2 allows them, although the most powerful products were already approaching those 3 Gbps and evolution was necessary.

That is to say that the disk I have could work with the SATA 6 connection, only that I have to configure it in the bios to put it in AHCI mode and install it normally like any other disk.. This would make the most of the ssd disk

This page also clarifies it better Installation guide.

[gamingpy]

The question is whether the connector of my hard drive is compatible with sata 6 to connect it directly and of course after configuring it in the bios to use it directly.. or will I have to format everything back :facepalm: because when I had it installed I connected it to SATA 3 because as I said Corsair Force GT 3 I thought they would only work in the SATA 3 input. But now that I have noticed the SATA 6 I have noticed that these could work even much better and more efficiently thus speeding up the read and write tasks.

In the box of the disk it says

READ 555 MB/s
WRITE 515 MB/s

[gamingpy]

Sorry I made a mistake, there is no SATA 6, it's SATA 3 6Gb/s, what varies is the speed at which it works. ;D

[ferelxyx]

the head is for something, right? think and look things up before you ask

regards

[gamingpy]

Confirmed if I can install it to SATA 3 6G/bs Source

[gamingpy]

If you are right, my fault and thanks for responding to the topic..

@ferelxyx:

the head is for something, right? think and look for things before asking

regards