Can I run the sata controller in ahci mode? Since this has ssd technology or does it not make much of a difference?
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For this technical question I would go to www.seagate.com, and look at the technical specification chart for ST1000DX001 drive.
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Nothing outside of the Drive itself sees the SSD. All your computer detects is a standard SATA III drive. The SSD is controlled within the drive with cache firmware to deliver better performance.
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It is highly recommended you use this in AHCI mode which takes advantage of the SATA interface and the NCQ technology of modern mechanical harddrives.
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I wish I could give you a good answer on this, but I installed it in a an older puter with an older sata3 buss, and ahci wasnt even an option in the bios. that being said, the customer is very happy with it said her puter has never been faster...
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I'm running this drive on ACHI, so yea, it works. ACHI says its only running at 1.5 GB/s when it should be 3 GB/s for my motherboard and the drive clearly supports up to 6GB/s but it doesn't really matter since you'll pretty much never go too far over 200 MB/s with one of these drives.
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Yes, no problem. I personally use a standard SATA drive through, I need the capacity. Works like a charm...
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What type of drive do you have? Yo need dual raid SSD drives sata 3+ to get around those speeds.
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From my understanding of sata cables they are all the same. It is the transmission protocol that is different. That being said, this thing is totally passive. It just is a smaller configuration of the same connection. I would be looking at whether your ssd actually reaches 6gbps speeds. Most don't come close- that's a potential 750 Mb/sec. The bottle necks on these things have a lot more to do with the ssd's controller than the actual cable itself.
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It runs SATA II but if you connect SATA III (3TB) it will work but with the speed of SATA II.I use it in my file server running FlexRAID & windows 8.1 Pro and the system works good.This is is not as good as HighPoint controllers but it will do the job but if the performance is important to you, use a better expensive controller.
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Be sure to know what you are doing- For an ssd to use full speed capability the bios sata interface must be set to AHCI, not IDE before installing the new SSD.
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Yes. The SAS drive has a different connector. A SAS controller will run a SATA drive, but not the other way around. If you want a fast SATA drive just get a Velociraptor or an SSD.
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Will this work with a sata drive bay? Does it need to connect directly to a motherboard?
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Good question! But I never test this issue yet. But the way, this board run stably. Really worth of money. Only backward on less SATA ports & lack of USB3.0
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Impossible with this card as it does not actually have a SATA controller on it, just a pass-through port for the eSata port on the outside. You cannot boot from USB disks on this controller either unless your motherboard has that capability.
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Hi,I'm using this with 1 ssd and AMD E-350 (Zacate) based motherboard ASUS E35M1-M for HTPC use. Works without problems.Another ssd should not be a problem. Recomended.
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Afraid not, the manufactures specs clearly state "Note: The card slots into an x4 lane however the interface in limited to x2 specifications". Which means the x4 card is only using 2 lanes, limiting throughput to 500MB/s max, just shy of 600MB/s for full SATA3. Not unusual for SATA cards. The performance, non-the-less, is remarkable, and if you need the card to get more SATA ports, it's a small compromise. If you are doing it to utilize the caching function of the Hyper-Duo mode, you'll not realize max performance, but will see better performance than with a HDD, so it's still worth it.
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Its just a power run. If your psu has enough wattage it'll be fine. Look at the 4 pin power connectors....they're all pigtailed (runs). Explorer sees drives depending on sata/ide...has nothing to do with power connections.
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It is SATA-2 compatible. However it will run at slightly lower that 1/2 speed depending on board chip set, X58 being suggested as a good one. The other catch is that the current controller chip must be a SandForce controller chip since it handles many features on the drive. I replaced a 64GB SD Boot drive on my laptop with a 256GB SSD SP900 and ran a clean install of Windows 8 with no problems.
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it will work but you wont see the full performance of the drives. you'll get between 300 and 375mb/s on sata 2.
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That compatibility is based on the interface. I believe this MB has a SATA3 3Gb/s ports. Why a 10k rpm drive versus an SSD?
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It should work. If your goal is a faster boot time, SATA connection is better and you save some money. Get a lager SSD since it is faster than the smaller ones, at least 250 GB. Good luck.