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T60P 2613-CTO - SATA II Compatible?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:14 pm
by VirtueTech
Hello everyone,
I purchased a Western Digital Scorpio Black, model # WD3200BJKT. This is a SATA II hard drive.
However I'm only seeing the following results using HDTach:
Burst Speed: 122.6 MB/s
Random Access: 14.6 ms
Average read: 69.0 MB/s
Can my machine run at SATA II 3.0 mode, or only at 1.5?
Thanks.
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:24 pm
by Brad
I am afraid that your ThinkPad will only do SATA 1. As far as I know the SATA 2 spec will be backward compatible.
Brad
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:25 pm
by VirtueTech
Is there anyway I can upgrade my T60P? Perhaps a new motherboard?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:37 pm
by Brad
I am afraid not. I have read here that there are other bottlenecks to acheiving the stated specs so as I understand it even a SATA 2 interface will not get you much higher results.
By the way is this a widescreen?
This is my results with my T60p and an Hitachi 7K200
Yours ----------------------7K200
Burst Speed: 122.6 MB/s......116.3
Random Access: 14.6 ms.......15.7
Average read: 69.0 MB/s........51.3
Hard drives are continuously improving.
Brad
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:39 pm
by VirtueTech
Not a widescreen...about 15"...I forget the exact numbers.
Thanks for your replies.
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:02 pm
by yak
AFAIK there's no conventional notebook hard drive that can surpass the SATA-I limit (150MB/s). The lack of support for SATA-II in T60 is only relevant if you have an SSD drive.
No T60/p motherboard supported SATA-II.
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:15 pm
by VirtueTech
thanks for the info.