Fastest SATA or SSD Drive Supported

Raiding SSD's is not recommended especially with TLC  SSD's that die after 1000 writes.

I need to know the fastest SATA drive supported by the motherboard/bios, not using RAID for SSD drives.

The system has a SATA 3G/s controller.

Thank you for the advise on the SATA and SSD options. Much appreciated.

I assume that using SATA III (6gb) drives will operate at SATA II (3gb) transfer rates?

I cannot guarantee that SSD will work in your system, but I am fairly confident it will.

I have installed several SATA III SSDs in laptops that only had SATA II support and they remain in use today. Two I still keep track of are a Dell Inspiron N7010 and another Inspiron N5110. Both have SATA II and both have Samsung Evo SSDs. One has an 840, the other an 850.

The first laptop I put an SSD into was only SATA 150 (aka SATA 1) and even though the transfer speed was not as good as SATA II or III, it stretched about 4 more years of life out of it.

The reasons I like the Samsung 850 is it is fast and supports hardware encryption. I'm sure others do also.

I should have asked what your budget was as there are plenty of options. Here is fair assessment of drives in each range and some recommendations.

www.hardware-revolution.com/.../

I actually bought 2 ea 2GB SATA III (Seagate Constellation SE) drives to setup as RAID 1 mirror. Now problem is when I try to clone the original 500gb single HDD to the mirror Windows 10 will not boot correctly. Throws an error to run repair but nothing seems to work. No time to do full reinstall of Win10, Apps, data, configs, etc. undergoing medical treatments. :-(  

Do you know a way to resolve without full reinstall from scratch?

Thanks!

Katzman

I have tried repairing several times. Is there a particular cloning software that works correctly at cloning from a single HDD to a RAID 1 mirror?

I used Acronis to clone from a single drive to a raid 1 mirror.

It was the Western Digital version. If you have a WD drive installed it can be used, even if source and target drives are not WD drives.

EaseUs Disk Copy is the tool I normally use.

Macrium is another tool, but I haven't used it in years.

Downloaded trial of EaseUS Todo Backup Workstation. It supposedly supports clone from single to RAID up to 16GB (only have 2 GB mirror). Will report back if it works. Thanks!

RAID 1 Mirror is only 2GB (2 x 2GB SATA III Drives)

INTEL RST Raid does not support larger than 2TB raid containers.

GIGA BYTES GB are 1000 TIMES SMALLER THAN TERA BYTES TB.

2 GIGA BYTE Drives are from 1985.  Newer Drives are 500 GIG 1 TB  2TB etc  Drives smaller than  120 GB haven't been sold for over 10 years now.

Correction 2 x 2TB drives (of course).