January 7, 201412 yr So I have a build from 2009 before SATA III was around or cost efficient. The motherboard I have is an MSI P43 Neo3-F LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130185 it has 8 SATA II ports and a pcie x16 slot I will be using for the SAS2LP-MV8 card. My original intention was to just use the SAS2LP card for my remaining 4 drives. However my question is should I move all my 2T drives to the SAS2LP card since it support 6mb/s transfer speeds and all the 2TB drives are 6mb/s as well? The next question, if I move all my drives to the card, do the forward breakout cables have to specifically say they support 6mb/s?
January 9, 201412 yr Author Clearly I meant gb/s not mb/s. Anyway I moved everything over to the controller card and everything seems to be working fine.
January 9, 201412 yr From what I've read on these forums HDD's can't fully utilize SATA III's 6gb/s capability; SSD's can. So in answer to your question you should be fine splitting the drives between the mobo and SAS2LP controller.
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