X58A-UD5-- 2 RAID 0 Arrays, 2 Optical Drives, and today I add an SSD

[Dark Mantis]

I received some EXCELLENT advice from two knowledgable forum members and got my storage woes remedied in a hurry.

My hat's off to you folks, and to Gigabyte for hosting this community.

I totally agree and couldn't have said it better myself. You had two of the best helping you there RealTime  

[Lsdmeasap]

Just wanted to report back on my system status.

Everything is running perfectly. The Intel ICH10R is really an amazing controller when configured properly. Running two seperate RAID 0 arrays of differing capacities and an SSD acting as the boot drive.

 I received some EXCELLENT advice from two knowledgable forum members and got my storage woes remedied in a hurry.

My hat's off to you folks, and to Gigabyte for hosting this community.

Thank you! 

Great to hear everything is up and running smoothly for you!!

Post back anytime, we're always happy to help our fellow Gigabyte users!

[RealTime]

UPDATE #2:

So I went to burn a DVD yesterday and got all sorts of errors and slowness. As I mentioned previously, I put my optical drives on the Marvell controller (ports SATA3_6 and SATA3_7). Given the errors, I uninstalled the hardware, restarted PC, and allowed Windows to install the generic drivers. I also changed the controller back to IDE mode.

These changes yielded no improvement so I moved the optical drives to the Gigabyte controller (ports SATA2_8 and SATA2_9) and all is well.

Man, I almost think there should have been a recall on these Marvell chips. 

[Lsdmeasap]

Sorry to hear about the issues, but it's nice to see you immediately knew how to solve it!

I've never heard of issues with CD/DVD drives on Marvell ports, but probably only because they're rarely utilized that way.   Thanks for the report, I'll keep that in mind for future suggestions when helping others!