MSATA is based on satellite A660-1FM?

Hello

I'm a happy user of Saltellite A660-1FM. recently I started to look for the upgrade of my HDD to the SSD. I can not find answer to two questions:

-did slot for mSATA SSD?

-support SATA III via his conector of HARD drive?

Thank you
M

Only the new Ultrabooks as Z830/Z930/U840W/etc... with an mSATA port. MSATA SSD physically do not take in a MiniPCI slot even if they look the same.

A660 are SATA II.

SATAIII (600 MB/s) was introduced only recently in the new Ivy Bridge platform (3rd gen I Core series) in 2012, if anything be based on Sandy Bridge (Huron River) and earlier will be SATA II (300 MB/s).

But that does not mean that you can not install a 550 MB/s SSD, it will be limited to 300 MB/s, but you see not much difference in normal use, it will still be much faster than any HARD disk that are generally limited to ~80MB/s with slow access times.

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