Re: SATA3 _A1, SATA3_ 2, etc. -

2020-07-29 Thread Roger Heflin
Had you been using the A* connectors and did they work reliably? In the past I researched the different sata chipsets, and I don't remember if I found anything definitive on the ASMedia ones. I have personal experience with the marvell ones and they were junk (4pt, pcie-2lanes) as they would rand

Re: SATA3 _A1, SATA3_ 2, etc. -

2020-07-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-07-28 20:48, Roger Heflin wrote: order usually matters little. Given there are only 4 I would expect them to be connected to the same sata device, but it could be that there are 2 2 port sata devices and the labeling denotes which of those 2 port devices they are connected to. The

Re: SATA3 _A1, SATA3_ 2, etc. -

2020-07-28 Thread Roger Heflin
ok. I did a quick google, and if this is an asrock motherboard then the A* ones are on their sata controller (whatever vendor they chose), I avoid all sata controllers that aren't made by Intel, AMD and/or LSI.Any of the other vendors that make only 2/4 port controllers are usually a disaster

Re: SATA3 _A1, SATA3_ 2, etc. -

2020-07-28 Thread Roger Heflin
o On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 3:00 PM Bob Goodwin wrote: > > There are four SATA data connectors on a new main board. Usually I just > plug in to them as convenient disregarding the numeric designations. Is > there a proper order in which to connect two or three drives and what is > it. Neither the b

SATA3 _A1, SATA3_ 2, etc. -

2020-07-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
There are four SATA data connectors on a new main board. Usually I just plug in to them as convenient disregarding the numeric designations. Is there a proper order in which to connect two or three drives and what is it. Neither the board manual or my google searching have been any help. The co