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I'm in the middle of a build with a Asus P8Z68- V Pro Gen 3 mobo. I have a 1TB WD caviar Black HDD right now, with intentions of getting a Crucial M4 128 sometime in the near future.
After doing some research around here, I understand that the M4 will one day reside in the Intel Sata6Gb port (Gray). My optical Blu-ray belongs in one of the Sata3Gb ports (Light Blue). Question is on the HDD.
From what I understand there is no point in using a Sata6Gb port on the HDD, even though it says Sata III 6Gb/s in the product description, because it will never throughput faster than 3Gb/s. So I would then put it into one of the four Sata3Gb ports (Light Blue).
What I was wondering, if the above is all correct, would it be better to put the HDD in the Marvel Sata 6Gb (Dark Blue) port? Faster than needed port, but since I don't have another HDD to put it into raid anyway, would the faster port insure enough head room to not bottle neck the HDD at times? Just my curiosity, as I don't know if it's better to have more bandwidth than needed, kinda like getting better performance by not filling a HDD to capacity?
Or, is it better faster/cleaner bios setup to disable the Marvel Sata6Gb (dark blue) since it's not really needed?
Hope all that makes sense, since I may not have the technical background to speak clearly on the matter. It is my first build, but I'm enjoying it very much!
After doing some research around here, I understand that the M4 will one day reside in the Intel Sata6Gb port (Gray). My optical Blu-ray belongs in one of the Sata3Gb ports (Light Blue). Question is on the HDD.
From what I understand there is no point in using a Sata6Gb port on the HDD, even though it says Sata III 6Gb/s in the product description, because it will never throughput faster than 3Gb/s. So I would then put it into one of the four Sata3Gb ports (Light Blue).
What I was wondering, if the above is all correct, would it be better to put the HDD in the Marvel Sata 6Gb (Dark Blue) port? Faster than needed port, but since I don't have another HDD to put it into raid anyway, would the faster port insure enough head room to not bottle neck the HDD at times? Just my curiosity, as I don't know if it's better to have more bandwidth than needed, kinda like getting better performance by not filling a HDD to capacity?
Or, is it better faster/cleaner bios setup to disable the Marvel Sata6Gb (dark blue) since it's not really needed?
Hope all that makes sense, since I may not have the technical background to speak clearly on the matter. It is my first build, but I'm enjoying it very much!
