Vostro 6Gbit SATA

Hi Stefan,

I was not able to find the information about the specific ports, but the system definitely supports SATA 6 Gb/s. So I would use port 0 for your system drive. Sometimes this port has a different color to designate that it's port 0.

Hi osprey,

Many thx for your quick answer. In the online-manual of the M270 the  SATA ports are declared simply as 6/3/1.5 . So I assume there is at least one 6Bb and one 3 Gb. Currently (factory default setting) the system drive is on a blue port (SATA0). There are 2 other black ports and 1 white port. I think  I'll have to find out by try and error ... But I think the blue one is the 6Gb :)

Unfortunately there is no (detailed) mainboard description in the manual.

Cheers

I have tested all of the ports with Samsung magician and a Samsung 840.  The only one that is Sata 3 is the blue port.  However, read IOPS are about 60% of expected and write IOPS are 33% of expected (Wind7 Pro 64 bit, Core i5 3450, 4 GB RAM, brand new install).  I wonder if there is a problem with the way the ports are implemented on the Vostro 270...

Hi donjuancarlos,

Are you running the latest Intel RST?

I downloaded the latest and saw no change in the results.  It is the same for all 6 machines I bought last month.

Indeed, the M270 has only one sata3 port. And when you want to install ssd, options will be to use ssd with low speed connected to some of your sata2 ports or to disconnect internal hard drive from sata3 port and connect to sata 2 (Where will be speed degradation).