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Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB sata 3 6gb/s showing up as sata 2 3.0gb/s

#1 User is offline   karnage 

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Posted 08 August 2011 - 11:57 PM

so with speccys my hard drive is being showed as sata 2 at 3gb/s. i'm confused as to why. I'm using a sata3 6gb/s MB.

this is my MB
ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AM3 DDR3

I enabled 6 inthe bios and still nothing.


this is my hard drive
http://ncix.com/products/?sku=57432&vpn=WD5002AALX&manufacture=Western%20Digital%20WD

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Posted 09 August 2011 - 02:54 AM

This link from Toms Hardware may provide some insight: Toms Hardware Max HD supported by XP PRO
Feel free to ignore my comment, just another user !

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Posted 09 August 2011 - 08:23 AM

i have windows 7 64
I checked off 6gb/s in the bios also
all the ports on my MB are 6 gb/s

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Posted 09 August 2011 - 01:06 PM

May be useful, http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?topic=6126.0 .

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