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Hi all,

 

I own an HP ProBook 4530s (P/N: XU015UT#ABA) and I'd like to upgrade its hard disk drive with a new SSD which is SATA III.

My question is if my laptop supports SATA III, in order to get maximum speeds.

 

Thanks in advance.

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the Probook 4530s has a first generation SATA(150)  interface SATA2 interface. You will get SATA2 data transfer speeds by installing a SATA3 SSD.  That is still fast enough to be worth upgrading.

 

Thanks and a KUDO! for member Paul_Tikkanen for providing updated information. 🙂



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Thanks for the quick reply!
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So, is it worth buying a new ~200GB SSD for ~200€?
Will a user have a benefit operating with a hard disk which can read its contents with a speed of 555MB/sec while the rest of the system can accept only 150MB/sec?
I admit that there will be some acceleration in the overall process, but can this enhancement justify the initial cost?
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An update to my last post. The 4530s has a 300MB/s SATA interface so it qualifies as SATA2. That will give a response time that should make it worthwhile to update to a SATA2 or SATA3 SDD for performance. I don't know if you have used an SSD upgraded notebook  before, but the performance increase is incredible. You won't believe that it s the same notebook PC.



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As of many videos I've already seen on Youtube, I can tell that the overall performance is quite impressive.

 

As far as the laptop's interface is concerned, I get a SATA III result, according to hwinfo64's, AIDA64's and SiSoft Sandra's test tools.

 

sandra.jpg

 

hwinfo.jpg

I'm not totally sure if these measurements are accurate, but I think it's worth to give it a shot...

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@goutsi wrote:

As of many videos I've already seen on Youtube, I can tell that the overall performance is quite impressive.

 

As far as the laptop's interface is concerned, I get a SATA III result, according to hwinfo64's, AIDA64's and SiSoft Sandra's test tools.

 

sandra.jpg

 

hwinfo.jpg

I'm not totally sure if these measurements are accurate, but I think it's worth to give it a shot...



Then that means that HP did not limit the chipset's SATA controller performance in the BIOS. I can't see the images yet so I will come back and look at them in a few hours.



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