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Any native/non native issue with SATA2 ports in my old intel motherboard?

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#1 ·
I saw post mentioned SSD has to plug into the "native" SATA 3 port in order to have the best performance while not every SATA 3 port on the motherboard is native. I am not sure what is the different between native and non native.

So my mohterboard is a pretty old one Intel DG41TY, it only has SATA2. Here is the manual:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/17101/eng/DG41TY_ProductGuide01_English.pdf
I read the manual and look like no different between each sata2 port. So any native SATA port issue?
 
#3 ·
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Originally Posted by ShortySmalls View Post

Native Sata 3 means the sata 3 port is ran by the chipset and not a add in chip. Like Z77 boards have i think 6 native sata and then 4 more add in ports. The add in ports arn't as reliable and sometimes slower then the native chipset ports.
I see, so for my old SATA2 board, don't have issue like this and I can just use any sata2 port on board right?
 
#5 ·
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Originally Posted by Lunk View Post

Yes, any of the four SATA ports will work.
The SSD will be backward compatible with the SATA 3.0 Gb/s speeds.
It will just not run as fast as on a board with SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports.
To be concise, the sequential performance will be bottlenecked by SATA 3Gb/s but the more important random performance should be unaffected.
 
#6 ·
I plan to just buy wd single plate blue hdd since my motherboard doesnt suopport ncq amd sata2 only. Dont feel good buying ssd and have like 80% performance.
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Originally Posted by DuckieHo View Post

To be concise, the sequential performance will be bottlenecked by SATA 3Gb/s but the more important random performance should be unaffected.
 
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