sandybridge mobos with that sata prob - is this a solution?

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hi,

i bought an asus sandybridge mobo that was release 1 and had that problem with the sata ports that means you need to RMA and get a release 2 board.

I mentioned it to a friend who said no point doing RMA, just buy a seperate SATA card that goes in to your mobo (PCI?) and this would mean you dont need to RMA but obviously it costs a little more.

Now I dont mind paying cus it means I dont have to completely disassemble the PC i just built.

So is that a solution - as I desperately want to add 2 more SATA hard disks to that machine. (first two sata ports are in use and apparently fine).

Cheers
 
Or just use the affected ports as usual, probably be fine for years. Might want to run a regular I/O benchmark to see if performance drops over time.

Unless the data is critical - in which case it should be RAIDed/backed up anyway...
 
Yeah if you don't want to send it back to be changed just use the 6gb ones for your important things and the 3gb ones for the rest. Only 5% are supposed to be affected so you're prob gonna be ok anyway. Save money for a sata port card till you start havin problems.
 
just send it back m8 u be much better off in long run it will only take 4 days round trip and will save u a lot of worry.
 
it's a poor solution to be frank, some mate you have there lol, as Boss man says, send it back and suffer the inconvenience now, you are going to have the system for quite a while.
 
You paid for it yet you're content to live with a known faulty product? Stripping the machine down is a pain I know, but get that board back.

Doing anything else is silly really
 
The affected ports could be fine for years, and there shouldn't be any issues with data corruption due to how the fault will occur. There won't be any performance degradation either, it will fail suddenly.
Then it's time to move onto the next available port :)
After they've all failed, £5 for a sata card isn't too bad.

Resale value might be relevant if you've got a fairly expensive board or expect to change after a few years. My board was cheap and I expect to get 8 years use out of it, resale value just isn't an issue for me :)

The inconvenience of swapping it now is just too much to bear when weighed up against the cost of a sata card and/or resale value.

I'd suggest putting the most used drives on the sata 3 ports and the others (DVD and storage probably) on the others.
 
well its your money m8, cant see the point of keeping somthing thats broken when you can have a new board for nothing in such a short turn around and keeping it for 8 years well i hope it will last you m8.
 
+1 for swapping it out tbh. I had to go through this with Gigabyte, they gave me a new one at the door when collecting the old one so technically there was no downtime (Except whilst I was swapping the boards)
 
weird_dave said:
The affected ports could be fine for years, and there shouldn't be any issues with data corruption due to how the fault will occur. There won't be any performance degradation either, it will fail suddenly.
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Both of these statements are incorrect. I can only assume they are blind assumptions.

There's a few anecdotal stories around the web that shows people hiitting the fault early on (one was linked on here when the story first broke, can't find it now). It really is just luck of the draw with an electrical fault, some will die sooner than others, but they all have the flaw.
 
Hmmmm
When pressed as to how an error could show up for a user Smith said that the BER (bit-error rate) would go up over time and could go so high that the serial-ATA port does not operate at all.

I can admit when I've got something wrong :D
As I understood it (incorrectly), one of the fets was basically connected to the wrong internal voltage layer. I thought this would fail suddenly, but obviously not :)
 
Boss_man said:
well its your money m8, cant see the point of keeping somthing thats broken when you can have a new board for nothing in such a short turn around and keeping it for 8 years well i hope it will last you m8.
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I tend to keep the same hardware for 4 years (I stopped being an upgrade monster), my kit is then recycled to another PC, so the overall lifecycle is 8 years :)

I'll come back in 8 years if it's still working :)
 
If the degradation gets too bad it might get to the point where your computer cannot boot because iirc you cannot disable the Intel SATA.

You really should go through the RMA process while it's still available.
 
It won't affect booting, I'm using the unaffected ports for my main drives :)
I did briefly look at the asrock site for getting a replacement, wasn't terribly helpful.
 
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