DS3 question with sata

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Hosinfefer

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Hey guys

I got a gigabyte ga-965g-ds3 board and i have two hard drives both sata (raptor for os and 250 for storage) plus i just got a new dvd burner with sata as well. My question is on the board there looks to be a two different kinds of sata connections. One is a sata and the other is a G sata. Now in my MB manual it says one is controlled by intel and the other is controlled by Gigabyte sata

How should i hoop up all 3 devices?? will the comp run faster or better if one is pluged into the Gsata or does it really matter???

thanks for the help!
 
It really shouldn't matter. In the case of my motherboard, I have 4 from the chipset, and 4 from another chipset. Personally, I just used the ones from the nForce(main chipset) and disabled the other controller.

If you're really worried about speed, why not connect a drive to one interface, do a benchmark(HDTach, perhaps), then try the same benchmark using the other interface? :)
 
can i use both of them at the same time. There are two gsata and 4 intel sata's if not then i guess i know right of the bat which im using..l0l

thanks
 
the sata ports controller by the main chipset (usually marked like sata 0 & sata 1) are the ones controlled by the main chipset and will drive your drives without any fear of bottlenecking

the silicon controller ) i believe its a silicon; is an additional controller but use the PCI bus which is much more suspect to bottlenecks, especially is you use alot of USB devices. USB & sata controller on the PCI bus share the same bandwidth

its hard than some people would like to state to bottleneck the bus, sata raid is a sure fire way to do it though
 
yes they can be used at the same time; drivers have to be loaded for the add-on controller >>>>> most likely that wont be the intel version but rather the other one ?????? i dont have the manual right in front of me

the raid version will be the add-on controller

you will need to sellect a driver package, the raid version or sata version
 
Okay, rabbit? I think I remember some German, anyway. I would use the Intel, if possible, but I wouldn't guess it matters. There are a lot of DS3 owners on this forum, perhaps one will soon show, I haven't obtained one yet.
 
the intel controller is the native one to the chipset

the other is the add-on so to speak



I have sold six systems with the DS3 board, they are all flawless operators

enjoy; very solid offering for the price !
 
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so far it seems run super smooth...the E6600 and 4 gig of ram might be helping it too :). I only plan on running 2 HD's and 1 dvd so i guess ill just use up the 3 intel sata which seems to be the norm so to speak.
 
I just tried putting 2 of my HDD's from 0 and 1 in orange, to 0 and 1 in purple, no different in speed. I bench marked them.
 
of course there wont be any diff in speed of the drives on the two differnent controllers as long as you dont exceed the 133 mb/s transfer bandwidth of the PCI bus

typical sata drive can sustain about 60mb/s so as you can see you would have to get into a third drive running simultaneously before you would see the speed drop off

kinda like getting two inches of water thru a one inch hose ?

most users will have no problem unless they saturate the PCI bus or use a four drive raid array
 
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