Why did this work?

[Hxc]

Okay, I built my first rig up yesterday (woo!) and had some stability troubles with the hardrive: if something was writing heavily to the HDD, it would crash and hang the whole system, even if it was only 50mb or so.

This was a Samsung drive in one of the intel sata ports on the DS3. I decided to swap it into the other ports, labeled Gsata, and I don't get a problem at all, the system positivly flys along...

Why could this have been? both drivers were installed

It also looks like windows is picking it up as a real Sata drive now....

 

[semi-pro waster]

What OS are you using? If it is Vista then possibly the drivers aren't fully developed yet but that is a guess. Otherwise you might have a dodgy port or controller.

 

[Hxc]

XP Home.... getting absolutly zero problems now its switched... Flashget used to just kill the system when writing to disk....absolutly fine now its off the intel controlller...