How to determine if mobo/system has SATA 6Gb/s ?

bim27142 · Aug 6, 2012

I am trying to determine if Samsung Series 5 NP535U3C has SATA III since I intend to upgrade it to a SSD.

Tried searching for specs but I am not able to find helpful information. How about any software? Are there any out there that can detect it? HDTune perhaps?

bim27142 · Aug 6, 2012

Also, for the specs of this laptop, would it not be overkill to equip this with a SSD? I'm thinking something below could be the bottleneck... though I know this is already Trinity-based which I believe is a bit better than any other previous generation APUs.

AMD Dual-Core A6-4455M Accelerated Processor (2.1GHz, 2MB L2 Cache)
4GB DDR3 System Memory at 1,333MHz (on BD 4GB)
AMD Radeon™ HD 7500G Graphics
AMD A70M

Jetster · Aug 6, 2012

So ask yourself if its SATA II would you still upgrade to SSD?... I would

Aquinus · Aug 6, 2012

Jetster said:
So ask yourself if its SATA II would you still upgrade to SSD?... I would

It would impact which SSD he would get though. In the device manager, what shows up under the "Storage controllers" portion of the list?

FordGT90Concept · Aug 6, 2012

You could try running HDTach or some other HDD performance test to see what the burst speed is.

70% says it is SATA 3 Gb/s and 30% says it is SATA 6 Gb/s.

Edit: Scratch that: I'd say there's a very good chance it has a SATA 6 Gb/s because it has USB 3.0. If they have one, they almost always have the other.

It has AMD A70M chipset according to the manual and they list SSDs as an option. A70M supports 6x6 Gb/s SATA and up to 4 USB 3.0 ports.

80% says it has SATA 6 Gb/s, 20% says it is SATA 3 Gb/s.

de.das.dude · Aug 6, 2012

im sure it has sata 6gbps.

if you want to be sure,

download the latest version of AIDA64
goto motherboard -> chipset -> southbridge(from the list)

then search in google with the name of the south bridge

eg for me its SB710

MasterInvader · Aug 6, 2012

Only took 5 seconds @ google:

http://www.samsung.com/ph/consumer/monitor-peripherals-printer/notebook-pc/ultra-portable/NP535U3C-A02PH-spec

Storage
500GB S-ATAII Hard Drive (5,400RPM)

I also find this:

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Motherboard	Asus P8Z77-I Deluxe \| Asus Maximus VIII Gene
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Power Supply	FSP SFX PRO 450 \| Seasonic S12-III 500
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How to determine if mobo/system has SATA 6Gb/s ?

bim27142

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Jetster

Aquinus

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FordGT90Concept

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de.das.dude

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MasterInvader

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