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z68x-ud3h-b3 HDD/SSD
« on: July 11, 2013, 08:11:22 am »
I've owned the z68x-ud3h-b3 for 2 years now. I have a HDD connected to it and a SSD as well. Now I got a second HDD and I wanted to connect it to the motherboard, however I'm dealing with some trouble. None of the other ports seem to recognize my second HDD. Here's a link to the picture of the motherboard, to make explaining easier.

http://imgur.com/bs1cpNl

On the port I thought you should connect the SSD to (because there's some text above it on the board saying 6gb something, which I thought was for SSDs) but connecting SSD or any HDD to it, I don't see it in Disk Management.

On the two ports my current SSD and HDD are connected to, if I swap any with my second HDD, the HDD is recognized in Disk Management.

The white ports between the black and grey ports I described, two DVD drives are connected in. I swapped one with my second HDD, it doesn't get recognized either, but my DVD drives do work.

So I'm in a bit of a loss here. The motherboard is supposed to be able to support more then 2 HDDs according to the specifications on the official website. Did I miss something?

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Re: z68x-ud3h-b3 HDD/SSD
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2013, 11:22:13 pm »
Hi Yusifer,

What is your Revision of your mobo?
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3853#ov
GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 (rev. 1.0)
or
GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 (rev. 1.3)

How to in manual, page 3
http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_ga-z68x-ud3h-b3_e.pdf


Storage Interface, page 11 on the manual:

Intel Chipset:
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2 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors (SATA3_0, SATA3_1) supporting up to 2 SATA
6Gb/s devices
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3 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (SATA2_2~SATA2_4) supporting up to 3 SATA
3Gb/s devices
-
1 x eSATA 3Gb/s connector on the back panel supporting up to 1 SATA
3Gb/s device
-
Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10
*
W hen a R AI D set is built across the SATA 6G b/s and SATA 3G b/s channels, the system
performance of the RAID set may vary depending on the devices being connected.


Marvell 88SE9172 chip:
-
2 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors (GSATA3_5, GSATA3_6) supporting up to 2
SATA 6Gb/s devices
-
Support for SATA RAID 0 and RAID 1


On page 26 , infos for Intel Chipset
and page 27 for Marvell chipset...


Have you plugged your HDD and SSD on the Intel connector ONLY?

On manual, page 48 and 49
In biois, check parameter about HD-SSD...
Advanced BIOS Features


And page 52 for Marvell GSata connector...