Recent content by TurboVirgin

Wow, I had not idea that half of my ports (the first 1-3) and that the other half (4-6) ran on entirely different quality SATA port hardware. It makes sense that the first few SATA ports on any board would always be the highest performing ones. I was just worried because in device manager it...

Thank you for your clarification. Just to confirm I understand your recommendation, you would have all your drives (SSD, HDD) appear under the Intel RAID controller and not the Standard AHCI controller yes? (please confirm if the following image shows the setup you recommend) This would mean...

You're confused, clearly there is not a consensus on which is best, hence why I'm still spending time trying to gather opinions and make a decision--thanks for the unhelpful comment though.

What's wrong with seeking assistance from multiple communities when people are giving conflicting recommendations/information? - Some say to install drives on Intel RAID controller and some say to install drives on Standard AHCI controller.

Hi all, I have a new system with a Samsung EVO850 (using for OS boot and applications) and a 2TB HDD Toshiba for storage with no RAID setup. I wanted to know which controller under the device manager my drives should be under for the very best performance possible (please refer to the screen...

Hell AT community, I have a new Alienware A51R2 Desktop system (I know Dell but it was a free item) that runs a modified Intel x99 chipset in it (Im not sure the exact model of x99 but maybe someone more tech savvy can find this out for me). This pre-made system came with just an 2TB HDD in it...