Solved P8Z77-v Mobo Question

[Layback Bear]

Find your motherboard manual; it is a must to have.
I do agree with kbrady1979, stick with the Intel SATA ports.

 

[PSCO2007]

I understand your confusion now. I'm also confused.
Your could check the Asus motherboard forum and see if their is a way to use all 4 sataIII ports at the same time.

I called Asus again, and spoke to a rep that previously helped me.

There are 4 6gb ports, but the other 2 are external, which I am using for my external hdds.

Thanks again for all the good advice from all who replied.

 

[Britton30]

There technically are 4 SATA III 6Gbps ports.....but only 2 INTEL 6Gbps ports. The others should only be used for emergencies.

Or storage and optical drives where speed isn't as important.

 

[kbrady1979]

There technically are 4 SATA III 6Gbps ports.....but only 2 INTEL 6Gbps ports. The others should only be used for emergencies.

Or storage and optical drives where speed isn't as important.

You could do that, IF you have hard drives using up the Intel ports. I would keep everything off the 3rd party chipset ports and disable them to be honest. I've got mine disabled currently. I would rather get a RAID card for more SATA ports than use the ones on boards today lol.

 

[Britton30]

But I have all 8 of my SATA ports used, new board has 10 though.

 

[kbrady1979]

But I have all 8 of my SATA ports used, new board has 10 though.

LOL, you need bigger hard drives Gary

 

[Britton30]

1 SSD
1 HDD
1 BluRay/RE
1 DVD/RW
3 eSATA front panel
Oops, I took one HDD out.

 

[kbrady1979]

1 SSD
1 HDD
1 BluRay/RE
1 DVD/RW
3 eSATA front panel
Oops, I took one HDD out.

Gotcha. Honestly, I wish I hadn't put an optical drive in this rig. I think I've used mine once since I built this rig, which was over a year ago.