I apologize in advance for probably being too wordy, but thought the more info the better?
I have 5 HD’s, 1 DVD burner, 1 BluRay player. The BluRay is currently disconnected. Windows 7, but will be moving to Windows 10 after a few months.
I’m going to add a SSD drive, already purchased but not installed yet. The HD’s are NOT in a RAID, and do NOT want RAID. (I have captured a lot of home movies that were on VHS, each tape about 25gb of data. I will be converting those to DVD in the future. That’s what is on most of the HD’s other than the boot drive.) The SATA configuration is IDE, but will switch to AHCI when I add the SSD drive, and reinstall windows.
I have one PCIEX x 1 slot and one PCIEX 2.0 x 16 slot available. I assume the x16 slot would work, since I’m not running Crossfire/SLI. Plus PCI slots, but those would be too slow I assume.
Motherboard is Asus Sabertooth 55i. I need one more SATA port for the SSD, and since going to add a SATA controller, then I could also connect my BluRay player if I ever buy any more BlueRay movies
Which SATA controller card would you recommend? I only need 2 port. Do not need RAID, but if it has that feature I can just not use it. I’ve searched the forum, and see lots of recommendations, but almost all of those are referencing RAID. I’m assuming I can get a controller card for $50 or less? I’ve seen some on newegg for like $15 (syba), but not sure of those. Also, some of those have Marvell chipset or ASmedia, I have no idea which is better.
Would the SATA controller card be AHCI? I’ve read that optical media doesn’t work well if AHCI, how will that work out with the DVD burner? I want to make sure don’t have hiccups when burning all those VHS converted files. Put the DVD on the controller card or MB?
Thanks, Steve
I have 5 HD’s, 1 DVD burner, 1 BluRay player. The BluRay is currently disconnected. Windows 7, but will be moving to Windows 10 after a few months.
I’m going to add a SSD drive, already purchased but not installed yet. The HD’s are NOT in a RAID, and do NOT want RAID. (I have captured a lot of home movies that were on VHS, each tape about 25gb of data. I will be converting those to DVD in the future. That’s what is on most of the HD’s other than the boot drive.) The SATA configuration is IDE, but will switch to AHCI when I add the SSD drive, and reinstall windows.
I have one PCIEX x 1 slot and one PCIEX 2.0 x 16 slot available. I assume the x16 slot would work, since I’m not running Crossfire/SLI. Plus PCI slots, but those would be too slow I assume.
Motherboard is Asus Sabertooth 55i. I need one more SATA port for the SSD, and since going to add a SATA controller, then I could also connect my BluRay player if I ever buy any more BlueRay movies
Which SATA controller card would you recommend? I only need 2 port. Do not need RAID, but if it has that feature I can just not use it. I’ve searched the forum, and see lots of recommendations, but almost all of those are referencing RAID. I’m assuming I can get a controller card for $50 or less? I’ve seen some on newegg for like $15 (syba), but not sure of those. Also, some of those have Marvell chipset or ASmedia, I have no idea which is better.
Would the SATA controller card be AHCI? I’ve read that optical media doesn’t work well if AHCI, how will that work out with the DVD burner? I want to make sure don’t have hiccups when burning all those VHS converted files. Put the DVD on the controller card or MB?
Thanks, Steve
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