I love you too and wish you and your kin a great holiday . <| sep |> funny , for a really long time it was my favourite Ryksopp song . but i do like The Knife also , so i guess i am already partial to Karin ' s vocals <| sep |> Grew up in College Station , got accepted into business school in Austin . Couldn ' t say no amd now I like both <| sep |> The peak transfer speeds will be cut roughly in half ~ 550 vs . ~ 275 MBsec . However that only really applies to sequential reading and writing where an SSD can attain those speeds . And even 275 MBsec sequential speed will be an upgrade from a conventional hard drive . But more importantly , a lot of reads and writes are not sequential access , they are random access . A Samsung 850 EVO is always going to be transferring less than 275 MBsec during random reads , so it won ' t be at all handicapped by SATA 2 in that case , and yet will still be at least 20 x faster than any conventional hard drive . So you aren ' t losing half your overall performance . You are losing half of bestcase performance . In other cases , you get full performance . And yes it is still worth it .