The USB 3.0 enclosure I bought to house the separately purchased hard drive will accommodate SATA 1.5Gb/s and SATA 3Gb/s hard drives. If one considers the speed of USB 3.0 I suspect that the SATA 3Gb/s capability is a good match. Doubt that it could sustain the 6Gb/s capability.PaulB wrote:I don't understand the relationship between USB 3.0 and SATA 6 Gb/s and why the throughput is ratcheted back to 3 Gb/s.
I had bought 3 x 1TB WDC Caviar Black SATA 6Gb/s hard drives. Two for internal use and the third for the external enclosure. I could have bought a WDC Caviar 3Gb/s SATA drive but that would have eliminated any future possibility of moving that drive to an internal function. Each of the drives was about Cdn$85 (before HST) so to me it made sense to keep them all equal. The WDC SATA 6Gb/s drives can be jumped to reduce the speed to 3Gb/s.
Hope your new equipment matches your expectations!!!
If you have to get the SATA 6Gb/s add-on PCIe card, remember to post back some timings... for Al's consideration.