Hard drive help, emergancy need help ASAP

[Dynamistic]

Hi guys, Im new so please dont yell at me if i make some kind of mistake.

 

I have a rampage 3 extreme motherboard, bought it 3-4 years ago and just recently I bought a wd caviar black 1 tb and a adata 128 gb ssd on top of the 1tb caviar black I orignally started with.

 

So my plan now is to put the two caviar blacks in raid 0 and boot off the 128 ssd, untill recently i just figured out that the motherboard only has two sata 3 ports. So im stuck, and im not sure what the hell I should do, PC is sitting outside and i cant use it till u guys get update me with an answer.

 

I was wondering what would be best, would the performance decrease on any of the drives if i use a sata 2 port? (they are all sata 3). If they do what will be the best option? use the two hard drives in the sata 3 ports in raid 0 and keep the ssd in sata 2? or do i put one hard drive and the ssd in the sata 3 ports andk eep the other hard drive in sata 2? please help me know i really need help.

[ERSCreeper]

Put the ssd on the sata 3 and the blacks on the sata 2

[Dynamistic]

Just use one sata 3 slot becuase there are two. Also would there be any performance decrase if i do use sata 2 instead of 3?

[extremescouter]

Put your ssd on a SATA 3 port, and put the two mechanical drives on SATA 2. There shouldn't be that much performance difference with the two mechanical drives, because usually only ssds use all of the sata 3 speeds.

[TechSage]

Yeah, put the SSD in the sata 3 because the SSD will benefit more than the Mechanical drives

[Dynamistic]

Ok, will there be any performance decrease on the mechanical drives if i switch from sata 3 to sata 2? the caviar blacks are sata 3.

[Raptus]

Caviar Blacks can't fill the bus of the SATA3 connection so you don't need to worry. 

[defunkt]

Ok, will there be any performance decrease on the mechanical drives if i switch from sata 3 to sata 2? the caviar blacks are sata 3

 

 

Hard drives don't normally benefit from SATA 3. They only run at SATA 2 speeds. So put both hard drives on SATA 2 and the SSD on SATA 3.

[Chevaishr]

Ok, will there be any performance decrease on the mechanical drives if i switch from sata 3 to sata 2? the caviar blacks are sata 3.

the mechanical drives are not fast enough to be a problem on sata 3 so you should notice no difference 

[jarreddean]

Hi guys, Im new so please dont yell at me if i make some kind of mistake.

 

I have a rampage 3 extreme motherboard, bought it 3-4 years ago and just recently I bought a wd caviar black 1 tb and a adata 128 gb ssd on top of the 1tb caviar black I orignally started with.

 

So my plan now is to put the two caviar blacks in raid 0 and boot off the 128 ssd, untill recently i just figured out that the motherboard only has two sata 3 ports. So im stuck, and im not sure what the hell I should do, PC is sitting outside and i cant use it till u guys get update me with an answer.

 

I was wondering what would be best, would the performance decrease on any of the drives if i use a sata 2 port? (they are all sata 3). If they do what will be the best option? use the two hard drives in the sata 3 ports in raid 0 and keep the ssd in sata 2? or do i put one hard drive and the ssd in the sata 3 ports andk eep the other hard drive in sata 2? please help me know i really need help.

 

We wont yell at you

:)