- Joined
- Dec 7, 2002
- Location
- Abbotsford BC Canada
I've probably been a member here longer than some of you have been alive. Which is honestly why I need some help.
The quick and short: Which SATA ports am I losing when I plug in an M.2 drive. The book says Port 1 and 2, but I don't know which ones those are. Is there a config change I can make in the bios so I don't lose those ports.
Longer explanation:
I've got an Asus Maximus Hero VIII motherboard with currently 8 physical hard drives in it. IIRC 6 platter and 2 SSd's. A total of about give or take 20tb of storage which I need access to some portion of it at any given time. For the last 5 years I've been fine, but having a single 240gb SSD as my boot drive, I was starting to get cramped, and seeing how fast M.2 stuff was, I checked the manual and saw that in fact I have some kind of slot for an M.2 drive and I ordered one up.
Upon further inspection, it says I am going to lose 2 of my SATA ports on the board, SATA 1 and 2. Which is really crummy as I was hoping to free up a SATA port when I moved to the M.2 drive, not lose one. I honestly don't even know which ports 1-2 are.
So now here is my frustration, is there anyone with knowledge of the Hero 8 that can tell me which ports I should be using to get the best transfer speeds, and any tips or tricks installing this M.2 drive when it shows up. For the record, this is the drive I bought. Hell, I don't even know for sure if it will work but it looked right. https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07ZGJYLNL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I had a PCI-E external SATA controller card, but it crapped the bed, so I have just been using the 8 onboard ports. Oh for the Record this is all housed in an Antec 1200 case which I think I bought 10 or 15 years ago. Power supply is an Antec 750w from about 10 years ago. I've got 32gb of HyperX DDR4 ram. I bought the 6600K / 32gb ram / Asus board when it was just released about 5 or 6 years ago.
Its been a year or 2 since I pulled the rig apart for a cleaning but after opening it up, I am going to tear it down and take it out to the shop so I can hit it with my Air Compressor then wipe it down.
The quick and short: Which SATA ports am I losing when I plug in an M.2 drive. The book says Port 1 and 2, but I don't know which ones those are. Is there a config change I can make in the bios so I don't lose those ports.
Longer explanation:
I've got an Asus Maximus Hero VIII motherboard with currently 8 physical hard drives in it. IIRC 6 platter and 2 SSd's. A total of about give or take 20tb of storage which I need access to some portion of it at any given time. For the last 5 years I've been fine, but having a single 240gb SSD as my boot drive, I was starting to get cramped, and seeing how fast M.2 stuff was, I checked the manual and saw that in fact I have some kind of slot for an M.2 drive and I ordered one up.
Upon further inspection, it says I am going to lose 2 of my SATA ports on the board, SATA 1 and 2. Which is really crummy as I was hoping to free up a SATA port when I moved to the M.2 drive, not lose one. I honestly don't even know which ports 1-2 are.
So now here is my frustration, is there anyone with knowledge of the Hero 8 that can tell me which ports I should be using to get the best transfer speeds, and any tips or tricks installing this M.2 drive when it shows up. For the record, this is the drive I bought. Hell, I don't even know for sure if it will work but it looked right. https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07ZGJYLNL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I had a PCI-E external SATA controller card, but it crapped the bed, so I have just been using the 8 onboard ports. Oh for the Record this is all housed in an Antec 1200 case which I think I bought 10 or 15 years ago. Power supply is an Antec 750w from about 10 years ago. I've got 32gb of HyperX DDR4 ram. I bought the 6600K / 32gb ram / Asus board when it was just released about 5 or 6 years ago.
Its been a year or 2 since I pulled the rig apart for a cleaning but after opening it up, I am going to tear it down and take it out to the shop so I can hit it with my Air Compressor then wipe it down.
