Is my drive running SATA 3?

[reflex]

Hi all,

I have a Western Digital SATA 6Gb/sec 1TB Caviar Black (WD1002FAEX).
It's plugged into one of the SATA III ports on my motherboard(SATA1), but I can't seem to find anywhere to check whether it's actually running SATA III of SATA II.

AMD overdrive says SATA II when I view the drive properties, but I think it may be incorrect.

Is there a program I can use to check which SATA it is running?

Thanks for any help

System specs

MSI 890FXA-GD70 Bios 1.6
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
4GB Samsung 1333MHz el cheapo RAM
MSI 8800GT OC 512Mb
Corsair TX650W
WD 1TB SATA3 Black 7200rpm
Seagate 1TB SATA II 7200rpm
Corsair H50
CM Storm case

[zanzabar]

the drive wont run faster on sata 3 than 2, and there is a bios problem were if u have multiple drives and one is not sata3 then all wont run sata3 so i would side with AOD

[reflex]

Yeah I realised it won't be faster, I was just hoping to check that board will actually run SATA3, as I have had many strange problems with my previous 890FXA-GD70.
Maybe tonight I will unplug my other drive and check again.

Thanks!

[Johnny87au]

Make sure you have sata III enabled in bios, i know on my ud7 its disabled on default

[reflex]

I unplugged my SATA II drive and it still seems to report as SATA II in AMD overdrive.
I had a brief look around in the bios and did not see anything regarding SATA III, only found the option to enable or disable the SATA controller.
I have some time today, so I will fiddle a bit more.

[WhiteFireDragon]

no mechanical drive will run at sata3 speeds. they barely saturate SATA I haha

[reflex]

I know, but it should still be detected as a SATA3 drive