I have this motherboard with the 4802 BIOS revision. And I have three Intel 520 series SSDs and one WD VelociRaptor HDD.
I have two of the SSDs in RAID 0 attached to the red Intel SATA III ports, the WD HDD attached to a black Intel SATA II port, and the single SSD, which is my boot drive and Windows 7 system disk, attached to one of the red ASMedia SATA III ports.
This worked well enough, but I noticed that I was getting a lot of Atapi Event ID 11 errors, "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0" in the System logs.
In the meantime, I moved my boot SSD to one of the black Intel ports, and the Atapi ID 11 errors have gone away. But I believe the SATA II connection is limiting the speed I'm getting from that SSD.
So my question is if I should avoid the ASMedia ports, particularly for a boot SSD? I have read that the ASMedia controller on this board has some issues, and that it is slower than the corresponding Intel ports. I thought that a driver update might help with the ASMedia port, but when I tried to update the driver, I receive a message along the lines of Windows determined that my driver was already up-to-date. So is there away to get rid of the ID 11 errors on the ASMedia controller?
If the above is all correct, then probably my best option to get the most out of my SSDs is probably to invest in a RAID card, correct?
Thanks for any info.
I have two of the SSDs in RAID 0 attached to the red Intel SATA III ports, the WD HDD attached to a black Intel SATA II port, and the single SSD, which is my boot drive and Windows 7 system disk, attached to one of the red ASMedia SATA III ports.
This worked well enough, but I noticed that I was getting a lot of Atapi Event ID 11 errors, "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0" in the System logs.
In the meantime, I moved my boot SSD to one of the black Intel ports, and the Atapi ID 11 errors have gone away. But I believe the SATA II connection is limiting the speed I'm getting from that SSD.
So my question is if I should avoid the ASMedia ports, particularly for a boot SSD? I have read that the ASMedia controller on this board has some issues, and that it is slower than the corresponding Intel ports. I thought that a driver update might help with the ASMedia port, but when I tried to update the driver, I receive a message along the lines of Windows determined that my driver was already up-to-date. So is there away to get rid of the ID 11 errors on the ASMedia controller?
If the above is all correct, then probably my best option to get the most out of my SSDs is probably to invest in a RAID card, correct?
Thanks for any info.