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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I've got a question. Most people seem to be saying to hold on and wait for the next gen SSDs to be released. My desktop is still on a SATA2 chipset.
The next gen drives will be SATA3. Wouldn't be a waste to run them on a SATA2 system?
Should I wait for the next gen or wait for the current SATA2 drives to go down in price? Are they going to go down in price soon?
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SATA3 drives will run on either SATA2 or 3. The cost increase looks pretty negligible, so it's just a matter of spending that money on something that is future-oriented vs something that is on the way out.
I'm also pretty sure that the SATA3 drives are faster even for SATA2 connections, just because of the updated controllers and firmware (though this I might be mistaken about).