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    VGN-FW Hard Drive SATA Speeds

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by trojanwr21, Oct 23, 2009.

  1. trojanwr21

    trojanwr21 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey FW owners (or any model owners),

    I was checking my hard drive with hdtune and saw something interesting...the program said that my hard drive is SATA I. Am I mistaken or is this for real? I have a CTO VGN-FW490J, got it in June 2009. The hard drive is a Fujitsu MHZ2320BJ. I did a quick google and the descriptions say it is SATA II, so I'm confused. Is it the motherboard that determines the SATA speeds or the hard drive? What's even more confusing is that in the official FW thread, someone said they installed a SSD and they're getting sequential reads at about 250mb/sec so that person definitely is in the SATA II range. I attached an image of the part that shows my hard drive info.
     

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    Evoss-X Notebook Deity

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    Hi I just checked with my ssd and says SATA II
    You should have sata II
    and what mode you using?
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    Hi Evoss-X, looks like we are replying to each other's thread =) Ok, so I'm a total newb when it comes to hdtune. What do you mean by mode? I'm sure mine is SATA II also, but it shows up as SATA I for some reason. I'm at work right now so I'll play around with it some more when I get home, I just freaked out last night when I saw the SATA I. That, coupled with the fact that Sony disables our bios got me all bothered =)
     
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