Question About The UD7 Sata Connector's

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hi i have a question about the 8 sata ports i have two solid state hard drives and two 2 tb hard drives the case im useing is a corasir 800d now my question is what sata ports do i use for solid states and normal hard drives plus a blu ray drive any replys would be greatfully appericated sorry about the spelling

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte forum.

The first thing we would need to know is what motherboard you have. You haven't given us much in the way of details to go on.

[x1_DARK_VAMPIRE_1x]

GA-Z68X-UD7-B3 im sorry about that mate thanks for the welcome

[Dark Mantis]

Are you planning to use the SSDs in a RAID configuration or as standalone drives ?

The large spinners I would put on the Marvell ports and set them to AHCI mode. Your optical drive I would connect to the SATA2 ports and set as IDE mode. The SSDs will be best suited to the SATA3 6GBs ports whether you are planning to RAID them or not. Put them, on SATA3_0 and SATA3_1.

This configuration will give you the best performance whilst giving you stability as well.

[x1_DARK_VAMPIRE_1x]

i was planning on useing raid 0 for my ssd i was told thats fast for gameing as far as setting the drives in AHCI  mode how would i do that the system is built and ready to use im just stumped what ports to use with what devices im not even sure what the 6 gig sata ports are

[x1_DARK_VAMPIRE_1x]

are the marvel ports the 4 black sata ports ?

[Dark Mantis]

You are saying the system is already built ? Is Windows installed if so you cannot just go moving things around. Why didn't you sort all this out before building the system up ?

[x1_DARK_VAMPIRE_1x]

the system is built but iv not put windows are anything like that on it its open with no sata cables connected yet im really sorry if i seam dumb im not really sure on some things mate

[Dark Mantis]

No problem just need to know where we are coming from  that's all.

The ports are all marked in the schematic in your manual on page 7 here:

http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_ga-z68x-ud7-b3_e.pdf

The Marvell 6GBs ports are the grey ones marked GSATA3_6 and GSATA3_7

No worries if Windows isn't loaded yet you can do just as I suggested. I forgot to mention that you can configure the two SSDs as RAID0 if you want to but you will stop TRIM from working and will have to use Garbage Collection instead to keep the drives healthy.

[x1_DARK_VAMPIRE_1x]

ok now where would the ssd go on the bottom of the 6 gig ports ?

[Dark Mantis]

No the SSDs should be connected to SATA3_0 and SATA3_1 as I first suggested. That is the two white ports.

[x1_DARK_VAMPIRE_1x]

ok menny thinks for your help i will try that now i will let you know how i get on

[Dark Mantis]

OK best of luck and if you need more help just come back again. 

By the way it's CTRL + I for the RAID configuration utility when booting.