Dollars vs results

[shepsan]

Will a significant productivity be realized by installing a PCIe SATA 6 Gb/s card and connecting a SDD to it that is presently connected by SATA 3 Gb/s to the motherboard?

Or, while there should be a visible increase in benchmarks, in actual computing there will not be much of a difference achieved or felt.

 

[beers]

If you need sequential performance, sure.

For all other uses, no.

 

[spirit]

You do notice the difference between having an SSD on 3GB/s and then putting it on 6GB/s - but usually only in boot performance. For example, on Windows 7 my old Crucial M4 booted in about 30 seconds on 3GB/s but on 6GB/s it booted 7 in about 10-15 seconds.

I don't know if you'd notice that difference on Windows 8 with Hybrid Boot which allows it to boot in about 20-30 seconds even on hard drives.

 

[shepsan]

Thank you for your comments. You have resolved my quandary about whether to purchase a SATA card.