Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R Sata ports

[Maccer101]

Anyone one know the difference between using the 2 Gigabyte SATA ports and the standard 6 SATA ports on this mobo? I believe they are all RAID enabled.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/...ProductID=2543

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/...5-ds3r_big.jpg

[BUFF]

6 are on the Intel ICH9R controller & 2 are on the JMicron/Gigabyte controller.

[Maccer101]

Thats my point, whats the difference between using them? is the ICH9R limited to 6 or is the gigabyte controllers better?

[Will404]

Not all that much - I think the only real use is so that you can have two seperate RAID arrays, e.g. you could have RAID 5 on the ICH9R, and RAID 0 on the JMicron controller.

[Maccer101]

Right, that seems to make sense.

Only stating out with 1 HDD & 1 Optical, think I will connect to the Southbridge

[HSK]

I have a board near enough like this one. pretty much what Will said.

I'm also just using one HDD and Optical, connected to Southbridge.

[Maccer101]

Thanks HSK,

Just posted another question about the board maybe you can help with?

Do you need a PS2 keyboard to navigate the BIOS for the first time? I've heard that USB ins't auto enabled on the board. I only have USB ketboards and wanted to know if I needed to borrow a PS2 to change this setting.

thanks