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    To the Y500 owners, is it msata II or msata III ?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by agit, Dec 20, 2012.

  1. agit

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    Can one of the owners check ?

    thank you
     
    agit, Dec 20, 2012
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    Would it be a serious bottleneck for ssd's if it was msata II?
     
    pranktank, Dec 29, 2012
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    MSATA II, my Mushkin Atlas Deluxe is limited to 330MB/Sec in my Y500.
     
    Psyrecx, Mar 13, 2013
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    Sounds like SATA 6 Gb/s to me. You're not gonna be breaking 300 MB/s on a SATA 3 Gb/s bus.
     
    octiceps, Mar 15, 2013
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    mSATA III. Has to be. Being a later chipset and all. Heck my Y570 is mSATA III. And as octiceps said, if you are hitting over 300MB/Sec, that is definitely SATA III.
     
    wildcard36qs, Mar 15, 2013
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    Don't shoot me if I'm wrong but sata II is 3gigabits/s. 3/8 = 0,375 gigabytes/s = 375 Mb/s.

    So 330Mb/s is within the sata II limit.
     
    pranktank, Mar 16, 2013
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    Serial ATA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    There's overhead so you'll never reach the theoretical maximum. Same goes for other computer bus interfaces. I can guarantee that the mSATA slot in the Y500 is SATA III.
     
    octiceps, Mar 16, 2013
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