« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2017, 06:10:11 pm »
Greetings,
Your MB has 2 SATA controllers.
SATA 0~5 is Intel
GSATA 0~1 is JMicron
Both are SATA 3.0Gb/s
See page 8 of your MB manual for reference.
Like the PCIe x1 slots, these two (white) SATA connectors share a single PCIe lane. If you connect one drive to either of the white ports, that disk will operate at a maximum of 3.0GB/s. If you connect 2 disks, the bandwidth is shared 1.5Gb/s. If you have drives you do not access frequently they can be moved there freeing up one (or more) of the Intel slots for that new boot drive we discussed earlier.
Cheers
Below is a diagram of the MB. It shows the number of resources (PCIe lanes) available for the various interfaces. In this case your PCIe x1 slots and the second SATA Controller (JMB362).
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