Sabertooth X58 SATA3 Issues

here's one idea ..... looking at the picture here:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ImageGallery.aspx?CurImag...

What SATA cables are you using to connect the drive to the MoBo ?

Correct answer = white tipped ones

Yeah, I'm using those cables lol, and a different cable for the SATA2 ports I use.

I suggest you forget the Marvell SATA ports and stick with the Intel SATA2 ones. The WD HDD will work on a SATA 2 controller too. I have the Sabretooth x58 and I also have a WD 1002 1T just like you. You won't see a huge improvement in performance with the Sata3 and IMO, the Marvell Controllers are not the best choice for any drive.

If you want real performance gain, I strongly suggest an SSD for your boot and then use the WD HDDs for data and programs. I did this last week when the OCZ Vertex2 went on sale and wow, what a huge difference in performance. According to Atto Disk benchmark, I am getting 270 M/sec. My third drive is a VRaptor 10,000 rpm HDD....it does 110 M/sec. The WD 1002 wasn't far behind that.

Yeah, I know, it is easy to spend other people's money.  

How would one go about setting up an ssd but telling windows to install programs somewhere else?

i got the same issue when a receive my pc, and make me some BSOD

here is my setup:

Intel Core i7 960 Quad Core Processor LGA1366 3.2GHZ
ASUS Sabertooth X58
OCZ Vertex 2 Extended ( by the way its a sata2 drive )
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA3 6GB/S 7200RPM 64MB
GeForce GTX 570 732MHZ 1280MB 3.8GHZ
Mushkin Enhanced Blackline Frostbyte PC3-12800 12GB 3X4GB DDR3-1600

note that this ssd is a sata2 drive and remember that a lot of ssd are too, i have buyed that setup from ncix with the build option and it was a desaster. techs have plagued my ssd into the first sata3 port and the wd hdd in the second one. That was incredable how i could have BSOD each 5 min lol. i tested my pc again and again with chckdisk memtest and alla the *** like that, a soon as i remember that the ssd was sata2, ''oh *** my bad i switch plug of the ssd on a sata2 port with a sata 2 cable, omg all work great now. the joke os that i have paid 65$ build option to ncix to saw that their tech are not really better than us to craft a pc lol. so i have my ssd plug to the fisrt sata2 plug with sata2 cable, my wd hdd on sata3 port(the second one) with the black and white cable from asus. i also change the primary hdd setup in bios and put the ssd on the first devide have to be called and boot from, 2 options in bios for that, 1rst in boot seq, the second in the hdd primary setup page, also update bios but do nothing for bsod for sata3, for the moment i think my best bet is to run my ssd o sata2 port. i read a lot of issues like ours and sata3 ssd have the same issues because of the marvell driver is like ***, so best bet is to wait of a drivers fix