New PC with blue screens problems MB: GA-X58A-UD5 (rev. 1.0) with core i7 930

[JekylHyde]

From the top, the blue ports are SATA2(six) then comes the white GSATA3 ports(two) and finally the white GSATA2 ports(two)

what is the different between sata2 & gsata2?

[onemilimeter]

gSATA2 and gSATA3 are "invented" by Gigabyte as shown in figure below. The first six SATA ports are connected directly to the Intel ICH10R.

[Dark Mantis]

As far as I am aware it is only Gigabyte branding on the SATA2 interface. There is only SATA2 and SATA3 the first is 3Gbs and the second(in theory) is 6GBs.

[onemilimeter]

I got a WD 640GB SATA3 HDD and is currently connected to one of the gSATA3 ports. Do you think I can simply swap it to SATA2 port which is connected directly to the Intel ICH10R?

[Peteruk]

I got a WD 640GB SATA3 HDD and is currently connected to one of the gSATA3 ports. Do you think I can simply swap it to SATA2 port which is connected directly to the Intel ICH10R?

Give us some benchmarks while your at it. 

[Dark Mantis]

I got a WD 640GB SATA3 HDD and is currently connected to one of the gSATA3 ports. Do you think I can simply swap it to SATA2 port which is connected directly to the Intel ICH10R?

Yes no problem at all. It is the same drive as my two but i am running them in a RAID0 configuration. I tried them on the Marvell 9128 SATA3 ports and was very disappointed so moved them to the SATA2 and there was hardly any difference. So much for the "four times faster than SATA 2" advertising blurb

[Peteruk]

It is the same drive as my two but i am running them in a RAID0 configuration. I tried them on the Marvell 9128 SATA3 ports and was very disappointed so moved them to the SATA2 and there was hardly any difference. So much for the "four times faster than SATA 2" advertising blurb

Bet the the random reads/writes were better.

[Dark Mantis]

It is the same drive as my two but i am running them in a RAID0 configuration. I tried them on the Marvell 9128 SATA3 ports and was very disappointed so moved them to the SATA2 and there was hardly any difference. So much for the "four times faster than SATA 2" advertising blurb

Bet the the random reads/writes were better.

To be honest Peter, I can't remember the figures now but I have always used a SSD for booting from. I have a 256Gb  Corsair Performance and it is very good.

[F5BJR]

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1 - Not SSD Sata 3 disks run at same speed connected to Sata2 or SATA3 ports

2 - also problem exist with WD1002FAX

look this french post :

http://forum.gigabyte.fr/index.php/topic,7951.0.html

no solution at this time , possible WD firmware problem

PIerre

[Dark Mantis]

Yes I understand what you are getting at Pierre. I have heard about this Western Digital SATA3 problem before and as you say as far a I know there has been no fix produced.
By the way that link was no good they were all talking a different language Je no comprende!

[F5BJR]

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you can use :

http://www.google.fr/language_tools?hl=us

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Pierre

[Dark Mantis]

Yes thanks Pierre, I was aware of the translator but it is useful for anyone reading that didn't know.