lorenzop.88 Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 Hello everyone. I purchased the iMac 21.5" i5 2.9GHz, Late 2013. I need your help about the Hard Disk. I saw that going on "About This Mac" -> "System Report" -> "Hardware" -> "SATA / SATA Express", it says: Intel 8 Series Chipset: Vendor: Intel Product: 8 Series Chipset Link Speed: 6 Gigabit Negotiated link speed: 3 Gigabit Physical interconnect: SATA Description: AHCI Version 1.30 Supported APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662: Capacity: 1 TB (1.000.204.886.016 byte) Model: APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662 Revision: JA0AB5D0 Serial number: ********* Native Command Queuing: Yes Queue Depth: 32 Removable Media: No Detachable Drive: No BSD Name: disk0 Rotational Rate: 5400 Medium Type: Rotational Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table) S.M.A.R.T status: Verified My question: Is possible that this iMac use a SATA 2 Hard Disk? Negotiated link speed: 3 Gigabit? Is there a configuration error? I did some research about this Hard Disk HTS541010A9E662 and should be a SATA 3, 6 Gigabit. I hope there is some error. Do you think that is normal or should I contact Apple Support? Thanks. iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiethemorris Posted September 14, 2014 Share Posted September 14, 2014 You have a SATA 2 drive. It doesn't matter though. A 5400 RPM drive won't need the 6 GB/s speeds anyway, it will never be fast enough to saturate that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PippoX0 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Buy a Ssd drive and get the right speed !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorenzop.88 Posted September 15, 2014 Author Share Posted September 15, 2014 So if I buy a SATA3 5400 rpm Hard Drive? Does not change anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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