GSata vs Sata

[HardStroke]

i have 3 different sata connectors on my motherboard:

1. x2 sata3 connectors

2. x4 sata2 connectors

3. x2 gsata3 connectors

manual says that the gsata is controlled by a marvell 88SE9172 Chip

can someone tell me what is that?

i saw online that if i connect my drive to the gsata port it will be only controlled by the marvell chip and not the intel chip (says that intel's chip is has the best performance)

so should i connect my drive to the sata 3 or gsata3 port?

[Oshino Shinobu]

Connect to the normal SATA3 ports first which are controlled by the Intel controller. If you have hard drives, you can use the SATA2 ports without limiting their bandwidth. 

 

Then use the GSATA (don't know why it's called that, it's just normal SATA on a different controller) ports.

[Eigenvektor]

Basically your motherboard has two different SATA-Controllers. One from Intel and an additional one from Marvel (the 88SE9172). The ports labeled as "SATA3" are controlled by the Intel chipset. The "GSATA3" ports are controlled by the Marvel chipset.

 

If, as you said, the Intel chipset has better performance, I'd say the answer is obvious. Use the SATA3 ports first and the GSATA3 ports if you don't have enough for all your drives.

[HardStroke]

2 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

you can use the SATA2 ports without limiting their bandwidth.

ok thanks homie

i thought that the best option is sata 3 but thanks 

[Eigenvektor]

Just now, HardStroke said:

ok thanks homie

i thought that the best option is sata 3 but thanks 

SATA3 has the higher bandwidth, but its a waste on a HDD that can't even saturate the bandwidth of SATA2. Of course if you have more ports than drives it's not really an issue.

[HardStroke]

1 minute ago, Eigenvektor said:

SATA3 has the higher bandwidth, but its a waste on a HDD that can't even saturate the bandwidth of SATA2. Of course if you have more ports than drives it's not really an issue.

i have 2 wd blue 1tb 7.2k rpm drives

1 is the 2012 version and i think that the other one is also but im not sure since i bought it 3 years ago

my boot drive is a kingston a400 240gb which i did connect to a sata3 port.

since i am replacing my cpu/mb and ram ill probably get a samsung 970 m.2 to get even better performance then the sata ssd

[Oshino Shinobu]

4 minutes ago, HardStroke said:

i have 2 wd blue 1tb 7.2k rpm drives

1 is the 2012 version and i think that the other one is also but im not sure since i bought it 3 years ago

my boot drive is a kingston a400 240gb which i did connect to a sata3 port.

since i am replacing my cpu/mb and ram ill probably get a samsung 970 m.2 to get even better performance then the sata ssd

You can put them on the SATA2 ports with no loss in performance. I'd save SATA3 for SSDs. 

[HardStroke]

11 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

You can put them on the SATA2 ports with no loss in performance. I'd save SATA3 for SSDs. 

ok dude

thanks alot