Which Hard Drive SATA II or SATA 3 ?

I plan to add second hard driver for desktop Lenovo 3000 K100 model # 57061334
just wonder which hard drive it supports, SATA II or SATA 3 ?
Thanks.

not even 15,000 RPM SAS drives can fully saturate a 1.5 Gb/sec channel by themselves. the best i've seen in my own tests is just over 130 MB/sec read and write. SATA 6.0 Gb/sec specs are pointless even for the best spinning platter hard drives, even in RAID 0.
with that said, the K100 uses a SATA 3.0 Gb/sec controller. while SATA 6.0 Gb/sec hard drives are backward compatible with 3.0 controllers, the best you'll see is around 80~110 MB/sec on any drives you're considering.
if the WD 640 GB is on sale and it fits your needs, buy it.
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