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No matter how fast the data was found by the SSD, it can't get into the CPU or RAM any faster than the SATA controller can process it. SATA I, SATA II or SATA III data transfer speeds are fixed by hardware and cannot be increased.
My little SSD really didn't seem to be any faster than my old SATA III hard drive, because both were running on a SATA II motherboard. For an SSD to really shine, it would have to be connected to a drive controller that is much faster than even a SATA III.
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I dunno. It seems to me that the spinning disk is the bottleneck more often than not these days. Whether you are talking 3gig or 6 gig Sata, the spinning disk can't keep up with either and you don't get even close to making use of even half of that throughput, or achieving those results until you step into the SSD world. The difference is absolutely apparent. Perhaps the SSD you purchased was a slow one.