Asmedia vs. Intel SATA?

March 28, 2017

Okay, so I've had an SSD for a while (Sandisk SSD PLUS) and the performance has been fine. Yesterday I noticed that my SSD was showing up in the BIOS boot menu (and booting fine) but it was not showing in the PCH Storage Configuration tab, only my HDD and Optical Drive were showing. I found out this must be because I've plugged it into a Asmedia SATA III port instead of an Intel one, which is annoying.

Now, problem is I can't remove my GPU to get to my SATA ports (long story, look at my most recent post below this one). So I'm wondering if it's so much of a big deal that it's in a Asmedia SATA instead of Intel, is there much of a performance difference?

I have tried changing the HDD and SSD SATA cables around (this way I don't have to access the motherboard SATA ports) so that the Asmedia one is going to my HDD and the Intel one is gong to my SSD and this works fine but it chnages my HDD (storage, secondary) to Disk0 and my SSD to Disk1 in Disk Management. This has not cause any problems and my drive letters are still the same (SSD is C: and HDD is D:) but I don't want to keep my secondary drive as Drive0 (for OCD reasons).

So, is it worth the trouble of attempting to remove the GPU again?

Mira Yurizaki · March 28, 2017

The Asmedia SATA controller is likely not going to pull the full potential of the SSD. I had one in their controllers and it was getting like 300MB/s or so, even though it was labeled as a 6Gbps port.

But will that matter? Probably not. Unless you have something that really likes the bandwidth, you probably won't notice a difference if you went native.

March 28, 2017

5 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

The Asmedia SATA controller is likely not going to pull the full potential of the SSD. I had one in their controllers and it was getting like 300MB/s or so, even though it was labeled as a 6Gbps port.

But will that matter? Probably not. Unless you have something that really likes the bandwidth, you probably won't notice a difference if you went native.

I guess it's not worth it then, i will change it around when I get a new GPU (during installation so I have access to the ports) in around a year or so.