X58-UD3R & WD 1002 FAEX help

[Tocapet]

Got this new board set up and running.  I want my WD hard drive to be able to access at 6 GB/S like it's advertised, but I'm confused.  I thought RAID was for multiple drives.  I only have one.  So how can I set this up?  I installed the ASPI driver and enabled it in the BIOS.  I have the drive plugged into
the GSATA ports.  Do I have to reinstall the OS?  This is the bottleneck on my system.  The HD is holding the performance index to 5.9 and everything else is 7.5 or better.

Gigabyte X58-UD3R motherboard
WD 1002 FAEX 1 TB hard drive
6 GB Corsair DDR3 RAM in 3-channel

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

Firstly please forget any notion of getting the 6GB/s out of this board unless you add a SATA3 card. The Marvell 9128 controller chip never performed as it was supposed to and as such works fine as a SATA2 ports. In fact the fastest ports on you board are the Intel ICH10R Southbridge controlled ones.

You do need two or more disks to make a RAID array but that doesn't mean that you can't run a single drive on a RAID capable controller.