Difference between esata and sata

[Nolo70986]

So I want to do a raid 0 with 2 128gb ssd on my P9x79LE motherboard but I only have 2 sata 6Gb/s and 1 is occupied by a 2tb hard drive. So what is esata other than being a port for external hard drives?

And what would you do? Get a raid controller?

[Jade]

Hardware raid controllers are typically better than built in and software RAID anyway. Your best bet is to move the 2TB to a slower port or get a RAID card. eSata literally stands for External SATA (yes, I know SATA is its own acronym). That's it.

[Nolo70986]

Hardware raid controllers are typically better than built in and software RAID anyway. Your best bet is to move the 2TB to a slower port or get a RAID card. eSata literally stands for External SATA (yes, I know SATA is its own acronym). That's it.

If I move the 2TB to a 3Gb/s port would my game loading be half as fast?

[Jade]

If I move the 2TB to a 3Gb/s port would my game loading be half as fast?

There are very few, if any, mechanical drives that can take full advantage of 6Gb/s ports. Even SSDs perform fine on 3Gb/s. So no -- unless you have a magical mechanical drive that and read/write at 6Gb/s.

[RevoltTrain]

If I move the 2TB to a 3Gb/s port would my game loading be half as fast?

No. Your 2TB is not getting a full 6GB/s of through-put

[Nolo70986]

No. Your 2TB is not getting a full 6GB/s of through-put

So I should move my 2TB o a 3 Gb/s port and use the 2 ssd's for the 6 Gb/s port or would it matter if I just use the 3Gb/s ports for the ssd's

[Flyguygamer]

So I should move my 2TB o a 3 Gb/s port and use the 2 ssd's for the 6 Gb/s port or would it matter if I just use the 3Gb/s ports for the ssd's

Move the 2tb and put the ssd's in the 6gb/sec

Ssd's can use 6/gb/s,  hdd's cant.