Can I swap the optical bay SATA port?
After a lot of research and a lot of confusion on the topic I decided to install an SSD on my mid-2011 21,5" iMac. At first I thought I would have to accept SATA II speeds from the optical bay. Then I realised that there are 2 SATA III ports, one of which is free (i'm adding an ssd but not removing my hdd). Then I searched on google for photos of these ports and I'm wondering... Can't I just put the Optical bay cable on the SATA III port and suddenly make it a SATA III connector, instead of buying new SATA cables ? I wanna do that because I want to remove the optical drive and install the ssd there (not underneath the optical drive) at the same time I take advantage of the SATA III speeds.
So, for short: If I unplug the optical bay from the SATA II and plug it to the SATA III connector, will the optical bay now have a 6gb link speed ? (So I can then replace it for an ssd)
Thank you.
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To be clear this system has SATA III ports. The optical drive is SATA II running thru the SATA III port
из Dan
It's already connected to the SATA III then ? That means If I replace the Optical Drive for an SSD that supports SATA III, I'll get "6/gbps" ?
As I can see from the System Information, the Optical Drive "link speed" is 3 gigabit and the "negotiated link speed" is 1.5 gigabit. So I assume it's connected to a SATA II, isn't it ?
из Henrique Mazer
Oops! Your right the optical SATA port is SATA II (3 Gb/s) not SATA III (6 Gb/s) and its running SATA I (1.5 Gb/s)
из Dan