Rampage III Black Edition: M5Pro Xtreme 512GB & Seagate 2TB

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I have an ASUS ROG Rampage III Black Edition w/ the latest & last firmware for the board, I installed the SSD as well as the 2TB HDD to the SATA 6Gb ports on the mobo. After the ROG logo, I see a screen for Marvell, and after that I see a screen mentioning JMicron, and that there's no drive. What is up with that, and how do I get rid of it?

Also, I've upgraded the firmware to the latest: 1.05; which also appears to be the last.

When booting up, ASUS' BIOS reports that the SSD is in S0 and the HDD is in S1 -- this is part of the Marvell screen -- but the upgrade tool reported the same thing, and first tried to see if the HDD was the SSD because it was in S1 and didn't pass, but then it saw the SSD in S0 and started the upgrade.

So, my question is this:

Should I switch the SSD to S1 and the HDD to S0?

Also, when in Windows, both the SSD & HDD appear under the "Safely Remove Hardware", what the hell is up with that?
 
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You have the x58 MB, sorry I mean the SATAII intel ports (black). All about the marvel SATAIII and intel SATAII performances, you can google it, and you will find a lot of those topics, yes even you have the newer firmware for the marvel ahci controller and you can have the better the benchmark scores. But that don't tell you anything. And now you have problem with the marvel sataiiiports even you don't have, you still better move the ssd to the intel ports. And you will have the same performances in the real world usage and you can get the very stable performance by connecting the ssd to intel sata ports, that is very important.
Here one review: Is A SATA 3Gb/s Platform Still Worth Upgrading With An SSD...
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They grey ports [2 of them] on the mobo are the SATA3 6Gb ports , the rest are SATA2 3Gb ports and are black.

Here's a screenshot with the SRH showing both drives:

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You have the x58 MB, sorry I mean the SATAII intel ports (black). All about the marvel SATAIII and intel SATAII performances, you can google it, and you will find a lot of those topics, yes even you have the newer firmware for the marvel ahci controller and you can have the better the benchmark scores. But that don't tell you anything. And now you have problem with the marvel sataiiiports even you don't have, you still better move the ssd to the intel ports. And you will have the same performances in the real world usage and you can get the very stable performance by connecting the ssd to intel sata ports, that is very important.
Here one review: Is A SATA 3Gb/s Platform Still Worth Upgrading With An SSD? http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-upgrade-sata-3gbps,3469.html
 
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