Yes, the newer systems do support 6G SATA - however, the near future will see SATA made obsolete, so don't count on anything beyond those to work with SATA SSDs -- PCI-connected SSDs have started to appear and will likely render SATA just as obsolete as SATA did EIDE.
Apple is already using PCI Express SSDs (these are NOT mSATA) in the new Air and other systems - PC vendors are poised to follow suit, so your future-proofing will have a limited lifespan.
At best you'll see SATA 3G speeds -- the chipset in the system is too old to support SATA 6G. Depending on how the SATA is implemented on the board, you may see a 150 MBps limit -- older systems such as this one may have a SATA bridge setup. If you don't see the option for AHCI operation in your BIOS setup, that's what you'll face.
If you DO see AHCI as an option, the chipset in that model should support 3G SATA.
You will need to change that to AHCI and do a clean install of Windows (and if it's still on XP, get rid of that and upgrade to Windows 7, as Win XP is not well suited to use with an SSD) -- then you should see a 3 Mbps throughput (as above, the system will not see 6 Gbps).
Installed win 7 64bit & 8GB RAM (PC2-6400 800Mhz (running at 667MHz.... IRRC)) Now going to install the max video card of 512mb (FX3600m) and will buy a SSD hard drive to install. I understand from you, that my broad will not run the SSD HD faster than 3 Mbps throughput. I would like to buy the latest greatest SSD HD, so that I will have it for my next laptop also, which will probable be a M6700 or M6800 Precision. Will the latest SSD HD (6 Mbps) work with my M6300, just as well as the 3 Mbps version, all be it at the slower speed?
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Yes, the newer systems do support 6G SATA - however, the near future will see SATA made obsolete, so don't count on anything beyond those to work with SATA SSDs -- PCI-connected SSDs have started to appear and will likely render SATA just as obsolete as SATA did EIDE.
Apple is already using PCI Express SSDs (these are NOT mSATA) in the new Air and other systems - PC vendors are poised to follow suit, so your future-proofing will have a limited lifespan.
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At best you'll see SATA 3G speeds -- the chipset in the system is too old to support SATA 6G. Depending on how the SATA is implemented on the board, you may see a 150 MBps limit -- older systems such as this one may have a SATA bridge setup. If you don't see the option for AHCI operation in your BIOS setup, that's what you'll face.
If you DO see AHCI as an option, the chipset in that model should support 3G SATA.
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You will need to change that to AHCI and do a clean install of Windows (and if it's still on XP, get rid of that and upgrade to Windows 7, as Win XP is not well suited to use with an SSD) -- then you should see a 3 Mbps throughput (as above, the system will not see 6 Gbps).
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I've set from ATA to AHCI in Bios. Formatted and installed fresh Win 7 pro 64bit.
Below is what I see in Computer Management, is that what I want to see and will this get the best performance?
I see in Device Manager, Disk drives:
MTFDDAK256MAM-1K12 ATA Device
I see in Device Manager,IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers:
ATA Channel 0
ATA Channel 0
ATA Channel 2
Intel ICH8M Ultra ATA Storage Contorllers - 2850
Standard ACHI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller.
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