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sata and hard drive question for X79 dlx

Post Date: 2012-10-13
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    Posted: 13 Oct 2012 at 10:26pm
question for motherboard gurus....
 
I am getting a P9x79 deluxe board.  it has: (2) sata3 and (4) sata2 controlled by the chipset.  It has (2) sata 3's controlled by a Marvel controller for ssd caching. and (2) powered esata 3's with a ASM 1061 controller.
 
from looking around it seems both the marvel and ASM controllers tend to be slow.  However I think many of these were on actual PCI cards not direct on the mobo.
 
I plan to have 2 sata3 capable storage drives (1 ssd 1 hdd)  plus a 2 ssd drive hot swap bay.
 
soooo. how should I ask these to be hooked up?  put the 2 chipset sata 3's on the storage drives I'm thinking.  But should I use the chipset sata2 for the hotswap bays or would the sata3 marvel controller still be better than sata2 off the chipset?
 
Hope that makes sense.
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I'm no expert on SSD and sata ports but , I would fill the Intel sata 3's with SSD first and put the HDD on a Intel sata 2.  The third potential SSD, on swap bay,  I would hook to any other sata3.  This all assumes they are sata 3.0 drives.

Edited by bprat22 - 14 Oct 2012 at 8:17am
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