SATA 300 mobo and drives but only connected at SATA 150
- by Shevek
I have an Abit AB9 QuadGT motherboard which supports SATA 300 drives
Connected to it I have a Kingston SSDNow V Series 64GB as boot drive and a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 as a data drive.
I also have 2 x Optiarc AD-7170S DVD burners attached by SATA
Both SSD and HDD are SATA 300 and the optical drives are SATA 150
I have just run CrystalDiskInfo and this is reporting that both SSD and HDD are connected at SATA 150, not SATA 300.
I have the BIOS set up to use SATA drives in IDE mode.
So a few questions:
Is CrystalDiskInfo reporting correctly?
Are the optical drives causing the SSD & HDD to connect at the slower rate?
Is there any setting to force the SSD & HDD to use SATA 300?
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate