buying a new ssd

[NewGuy00]

Hello,
I'm thinking about buying an SSD drive. If i do, i want to be able to enjoy the maximum performance that they offer since they are rather expensive. So i want to find out whether my laptop is SATA III 6GB/s compatible or just has SATA II 3GB/s.
I have an Sony Vaio VGN-FW48E, MoBo is ich8m southbridge, it's currently running a sata 1.5gb/s with Radeon HD 4650, Duo Core 2GHz, 500GB HDD and a Blu-ray disc drive. Whilst i know that all of these stats don't mean a thing in terms of SATA but thought it might help identify exactly what i might need.
Any help is much appreciated.

 

[Christiaan Lourens]

The OCZ Arch 100 or the Crucial Mx100 would be my recommendations. However last year Samsung made some of the best SSD's so if you want to save a few bucks maybe pick one of them up.

To give you some background I run 2 OCZ SSD's in a RAID setup and they are very reliable.

 

[NewGuy00]

so i can run sata 3 ? or am i just limited to sata 2 speed?

 

[Christiaan Lourens]

If you look at this website you can see that it will reach SATA 3 speeds (6GB/s)

http/www.crucial.com/usa/en/vaio-vgn-fw48e/CT6789514

and it is compatible with your laptop.