USR <myohmy@hotmail.com> wrote

> I'm hoping that someone can answer the following question ... before I fork out money for a new
> SATA hard drive.

> I'm thinking of getting a Seagate ST3320620AS hard drive. The benchmarks for the drive look
> awsome. However, my motherboard does not have 3.0Gb/s capabilties. I know that the drive will
> still run at 1.5Gb/s. I will not be using a RAID setup.

> My question is, will the drive's performance go down by setting it to 1.5Gb/s or, will the
> performance be the same?

The performance in other than a benchmark is determined by the
drive physical characteristics, rotation rate and sectors per track,
so you shouldnt notice any difference in a proper double blind trial.