Asus sabertooth wchich sata ports to use

[skydiver00]

im going to have 2 raid 1's... 2 ssds 500 gig samsung 840 and 2 wd black 2ter hard drives..the ssds are going to be for programs, and the harddrives are going to be for the my pictures..etc... the mother board only has 2 sata3 coming off the z77 chip.. it has 2 other sata3 ports coming off the other chip.. not sure what that one is called.. would it be better just to put the hard drives on the sata 2 on the z77 chip? i have read the owners maunal for the mother build and am really not sure.. this is my first build its an i7 3770k... thanks tony

 

[Dereck47]

.. would it be better just to put the hard drives on the sata 2 on the z77 chip?

Yes. Put your SSDs on the Intel 6Gb/s ports and your HDDs on the Intel 3Gb/s ports.

You won't suffer any loss in performance having 6Gb/s HDDs on 3Gb/s ports; they can't spin fast enough to saturate the ports.

 

[skydiver00]

Thank you for your reply. I appreciate it.. tony