Which Internal Connections do I use?

ks007

ks007

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Dear All,

I would like to know what are the optimum internal connections to use with the following hardware.

The Motherboard that I have is a Gigabyte x58A-UD5 Rev 2.0.

The devices that I need to connect to this MoBo are:

1. Western Digital VelociRaptor 600GB 10000RPM SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache

2. Samsung SH-B123L/BSBP 12x BluRay ROM DVDRW DL & RAM Lightscribe SATAII Optical Drive

Looking at the schematic layout of the Mobo I am trying to understand what are the best connectors to use for the above devices mentioned. I will not be doing any hot-swapping of hard drives. There are the SATA2 3Gb/s ICH10R connectors, GSATA Gigabyte 3Gb/s connectors and SATA 6Gb/s Marvell 9128 connectors).

Manual found here:

http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileLi [...] v2.0_e.pdf (see Page 29)

Also, should I use AHCI or just stick to IDE? From what I have read on fiorums there are different schools of thought on this.

Any help on this will be HUGELY appreciated!

Cheers
ks
 
Connext the SATA 6Gb/s HDD to the marvell SATA3 port and the BDRW drive to one of the intel SATA2 ports.

If youre doing a fresh windows install set to ACHI mode.

Oh, and welcome to the forums :)
 
Personally I would connect both devices to the intel ich10r sata ports, and ignore the others. Although your Velociraptor supports sata3, it's performance is so far below the maximum bandwidth for sata 2 as to make it irrelevent (~280MBps for the sata port, ~110MBps for the Veliciraptor).

The intel controller is one of the best sata 2 controllers performance wise, and I would expect the veliciraptor to perform better on the intel ports than the sata 3 ports.

If you had a crucial C300 SSD, I'd advise a sata3 port, but that is a significantly faster drive.
 
One follow up question. For the motherboard that I have, I plan on doing a clean install of Win 7 64.

Is it the ICH SATA Control Mode Option that needs to be set to AHCI?

Any perfomance gains in setting it to AHCI?

Thanks!
 
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