Adding SSATA 3 ports to HP Pavilion.

[Kenlines]

I am considering changing from the noisy (continually chirruping) 3TB  Hitachi HDD fitted as standard in my  system and install two 480/500 GB SSDs - probably Sandisk or Kingston.  One will be the master (OS and data) the other will purely be a weekly 'clone' of the master.

The mobo in my rig is the Pegatron Formosa which, as far as I can see, only has SATA 2 ports fitted.  To makethe most of the SSD's speed I need to use SATA 3, 6GBs.

Can anyone advise as to the best, reasonably priced, good performance SATA 3, 4 port (I might consider 2 port) PCI-e Controller Card that will fit my system.  I do not need RAID or Hyper Duo.

Many thanks.

Ken.

[Big_Dave · Accepted solution]

Hi Ken,

I am not sure what you mean by adding 3 SATA ports.  The Formosa motherboard does have six SATA ports.

HP has never acknowledged the documention that indicates that the four grouped SATA ports are 3.0 or 6.0 Gb/s. However, the Z75 chipset should be able to support up to six SATA III ports.  If you have an IVY bridge processor then you should be able to test the port speed by using a SATA III HD or SSD.

[Kenlines]

Thanks, Dave.

The documentation I had access to only referred to SATA Ports and gave the impression that they were not SATA 3.   My CPU is Ivy Bridge, i7-3770, socket 1155 LGA which fits in with your reply.

Your answer has cleared thnigs up nicely for me.

Thanks again.

Ken Lines.

[Hollada62]

The image of the board in this post indicates that ports 5 and 6 are Sata III ports.  The site below indicates its ports 1 and 2.  I ca't get either to perform above 3 mbs on my newly installed Samsung EVO 860 SSD.

https://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c03132942

6x SATA 2.0 connectors (SATA 0 - 1 @ 6 Gb/s, SATA 2 -5 @ 3 Gb/s)

ANy suggestions?