890GPA-UD3H not running on SATA-3 6GB/s on RAID-1 Setup

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Vladimir M

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Hello TH forums!

I have 2 WD Black running in RAID-1 setup for optimal mechanical drive speed.
However, Speccy reports that the drives use SATA-2 3Gb/s instead of their maximum speed, which is the SATA-3 6Gb/s

The sata3 controller is enabled via bios and everything is as it should be. do I need to set any configurations differently or maybe I have to disable something? Please let me know at your earliest convenience.
It's been more than 4 yrs since I own this board and I never noticed it wasn't running to its full potential.
Thank you geeks

EDIT: For those who are wondering, the mobo revision is 2.1.
The motherboard in question is: GA-890GPA-UD3H, very solid board.
And to those rubbing their heads, yes the RAID Drivers were installed during windows install. Thanks again
 
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SuperSoph_WD
Hey there, Vladimir!

SATA II or SATA III doesn't really make any difference for HDDs because it doesn't provide any gain in speed for them either way. A mechanical hard drive is limited to its RPM capabilities, which prevents it from exceeding the SATA II bandwidth. Its performance is related to the drive itself rather than the SATA port that it's connected to. SATA III ports truly come in handy when there is an SSD in the system, because their speed can reach up to 500MB/s and if they were plugged in a SATA II port, it would bottleneck the SSD's performance.

Either way, you don't need to change any settings or configurations because you wouldn't see any noticeable difference in terms of performance in your RAID 1 array.

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SuperSoph_WD

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Hey there, Vladimir!

SATA II or SATA III doesn't really make any difference for HDDs because it doesn't provide any gain in speed for them either way. A mechanical hard drive is limited to its RPM capabilities, which prevents it from exceeding the SATA II bandwidth. Its performance is related to the drive itself rather than the SATA port that it's connected to. SATA III ports truly come in handy when there is an SSD in the system, because their speed can reach up to 500MB/s and if they were plugged in a SATA II port, it would bottleneck the SSD's performance.

Either way, you don't need to change any settings or configurations because you wouldn't see any noticeable difference in terms of performance in your RAID 1 array.

Hope this was helpful. Let me know if you have any additional questions! :)
SuperSoph_WD
 
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