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    Clevo P150EM SATA Speeds

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by shadow1013, May 1, 2012.

  1. shadow1013

    shadow1013 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm wondering if anyone could tell me the speeds of the SATA ports on the P150EM. The ports I'm wondering is for the main hard drive, the optical drive, and the mSATA. Are they SATA 2 (3GBs) or SATA 3 (6GBs)? Thank you.
     
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    Tyranids Notebook Evangelist

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    The main hard drive is SATA 3, the optical drive is SATA 2, and I'm not sure about mSATA - but none of the mSATA SSDs would max it out anyways, they're all pretty slow still.
     
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    molTenLead Notebook Consultant

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    mSATA is SATA 2 afaik.
     
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    Max out what? The mSATA III are pretty darn fast actually!
    That is correct, the mSATA is sadly SATA-II :(
     
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  5. shadow1013

    shadow1013 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thank you. I'm glad to see that the optical drive is SATA 2, other laptops I've been looking at were only SATA 1 which almost isn't worth taking the optical drive out to put a hard drive in there for storage.
     
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    Anthony@MALIBAL Company Representative

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    I haven't seen SATA I ports in years. The SATA II ports are more than fast enough for mechanical drives though. mSATA currently runs on SATA II, but if you want a fast primary drive I'd still recommend using a full size SATA III drive and replacing the optical drive. Since I have Windows 7 on a bootable USB, I can't remember the last time I've used optical disks (other than watching Blu-Ray on an external drive).
     
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    shadow1013 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well the Alienware m14x had SATA 1 for their optical drive. Yeah most of my videos are digital on my hard drive so a storage drive in for the optical is worth it.
     
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