Why's my PC using SATA II?

[Philip Herlihy]

I have a Dell Vostro 470 (motherboard is 0NW73C). If I'm reading specs
correctly, the motherboard and all three installed disks (certainly my
OCZ SSD) are all capable of SATA III speeds. So why does Speccy report:
"Max Transfer mode SATA III 6.0Gb/s
Used Transfer mode SATA II 3.0Gb/s"

Am I missing out (unnecessarily?) on some speed here? Running Windows
10.

Also - less important - I'm sure I've checked the transfer mode in
another way before, but it's ages since I thought about this and I
really can't remember how. Is there a "standard" way to check the
effective SATA transfer mode?


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Phil, London

[David]

Interesting.

Just downloaded Speccy and it shows two internal drives, one as SATA III
and one as SATA II. Both Max and Used the same.

However I have an external USB 3.0 drive which reports Max SATA III and
Used SATA II so I too would be interested in the reasons.

Cheers


Dave R



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[Jimmy]

did you set sata mode to raid in bios?

even if not using raid set it to raid


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[Philip Herlihy]

In article <5r-dnX24tp70_2DE...@brightview.co.uk>,
ku...@red.com says...

That's a bit counter-intuitive. Do you have a reference for this?

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Phil, London