Very specific hardware question re: asus P8Z77-V Pro

Published on May 1, 2012 By pacov In Personal Computing

I've been looking over the net and haven't found an answer for this one yet. Figured I'd take a shot here.

So, I picked up an ivy bridge cpu and the asus P8Z77-V Pro motherboard. I also picked up a nice SSD. Anyway, the motherboard has the intel sata 6 interface and an additional sata 6 interface via the ASMedia® PCIe SATA controller .

Should I be using the intel sata 6 interface or the asmedia one for best performance? I'm not running a raid setup here - just a single SSD. Any insight would be SUPER appreciated. Hoping I don't get into a situation where I load up my harddrive and have to reinstall due to a misstep. Thanks!

Comments

pacov

on May 01, 2012

Neil Banfield

on May 01, 2012

I would always use the intel one on the motherboard myself.

pacov

on May 01, 2012

Neil Banfield

reply 2

I would always use the intel one on the motherboard myself.

Any reasoning? I mean, they threw in the extra sata controller for a reason, I'd think. Pretty sure I read in the manual that this 2nd controller can only run hard drives as well. Makes me think there might be a logical reason to use the extra controller. Of course, that could be rubbish...

Wizard1956

on May 01, 2012

Just glancing through this: http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASMedia-SATA-6Gbps-Controllers-Make-Their-Way-Into-Retail-195300.shtml

"These can be used to power stand-alone SATA 6Gbps cards as well as to add such functionality to motherboard that don't support it."

it appears the ASMedia functions as s controller for future PCI-e add-on SATA III ports. or support for boards that do not support 6GBs natively. I could, of course, be wrong.

kryo

on May 01, 2012

pacov

reply 3

Makes me think there might be a logical reason to use the extra controller.

To run more SATA III drives simultaneously. Most performance boards have a secondary controller just for that purpose; the chipset controller doesn't support many drives alone.

pacov

on May 01, 2012

OK then - just going to switch over and use the intel one then. Thanks!

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