First of all, I have to say how grateful I am to you all for your help with this -
Aussie Allan, GTZaskarLE & Dark Mantis. You're all top rate people!
Thanks to
Allan for confirming that SATA cable types only vary in quality, not speed. I have looked into some HQ cables such as
Overclockers Akasa's, so I may well go down that route a some point...bit of a shame though, as I have dozens of SATA cables of all lengths (from client upgrade/new builds).
I also have to admit, SATA cables in my tower run tight to each other and power cables around them - haven't really sat down and thought "cable management!", yet
It's a bit of a mess as I have 6 SATA cables in use, but I will have a tidy up when I stop needing the computer for earning money
GTZaskarLE - I will definitely find the answer to your questions - especially as they aid me in a speed increase! Thanks for giving me a link to a firmware upgrade where the SSD is boot, I had gone to the OCZ website briefly and only downloaded the upgrade file!
I'm fairly sure from memory the SATA mode is IDE, I did assume that the RAID mode should be used when more than one disk is being used, I also thought that AHCI serves little benefit to 'mono drive' solutions?
I'm unsure of the precise sata port...athough I'm fairly sure it's in the wrong one
Hi
Dark Mantis, thanks for confirming - always nice to get double confirmation
Yes I only have the metal locking version these days, although I did prefer the push in ones, handy for tight cases.
As I've not set up a RAID proper, I need not worry about cable lengths...but that is very useful to know - logically similar to tuning the length of motorcycle exhaust pipes! One thing I could do with is an outlet for super short SATA cables (100-200mm), because my motherboard (like most Gigabyte's I think) have side access SATA ports, so they point almost directly at most of my HDD's.
Thanks again everyone - you are the most useful & friendly forum I have ever used thus far (blush).