Does HP Probook supports SATA 3 [6Gb/s]

[anarchos78]

Hello,

I have a "hp probook 4520s" two years now. I desided to upgrade the hdd with a SSD [Samsung 840 Pro-500gb ]. What i notised was that the ssd reads and writes with the half speed (250MB/s instead of 500MB/s). I installed "Samsung Magician" (Samsung's utility for ssd optimizing and motitoring) on my laptop. The above utility indicated that i have done all the necessary OS tunning (TRIM, power optimazing etc), but there was one message: "Your system does not support a SATA 6 Gb/s (SATA 3) port" (see the image below). I think that HP ProBook 4520s supports "SATA 6 Gb/s". My questions are: (1) Does ProBook supports SATA 6 Gb/s? (2) If not, can i upgrade the hardware/software to support "SATA 6 Gb/s" and how?

Regards

[banhien]

Hi,

You can check it yourself. Please download the following file, unzip, install and run it. Under Disk controller you can seeall information:

  ftp://ftp.cpuid.com/pc-wizard/pc-wizard_2012.2.11.zip

Regards.

[anarchos78]

Thank you for the tip. Running the utility shows that bandwidth is 3Gb/s but Serial ATA version is: 3.0-(SATA 600). What does that mean? Can i upgrade it if 3db/s? Thanks

[banhien · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The bandwidth is 3Gb/s that means the controller is SATA 2 and it shows your SSD is SATA 3. No, you can't unless you swap the motherboard and few other things = new machine.

Regards.

[anarchos78]

Many thanks