
HWiNFO is a free portable system tool that provides a very comprehensive and in-depth hardware information for your Windows system. Even though SATA 3 is commonly supported on the modern computer motherboards, it’s always good to know if the SSD drive you bought is connected to the right port to provide the best performance. It’s hard to tell whether it supports SATA 3 or just STAT 2. Out of the box, Windows doesn’t provide a tool that provides details about the STAT storage controller you have on your motherboard.

And the version 3 was introduced 5 years later in 2009, doubled the transfer rate to 6.0 Gbit/s, a perfect fit for the SSDs that started to evolve as the mainstream highspeed storage.

The version 2 of SATA was introduced more than a decade ago in 2004, featuring the maximum data transfer rate at 3.0 Gbit/s. SATA, short for Serial ATA, is a computer bus interface for mass storage devices such as hard drives, optical drives, and SSDs.
