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Asus P8Z68 Deluxe with SSD for OS and Apps

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manderson

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I tried this once with a Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB SSD. Had it plugged into one of the Intel SATA III ports, and two WD Black 2TB drives (RAID 1) on the Marvel controller to be used for data.

I also had my SATA CD/DVD drive on the second Intel SATA III port, and a couple older WD 500 GB drives on the SATA II ports for a secondary data volume.

Windows 7 went through the copying and unpacking of the installation files, but when it got to the installation it choked and said the BIOS did not support the SSD as the primary OS drive. I have since upgraded the BIOS to the beta version 0651 and it seems to be okay.

Any thoughts before I give this another shot?
 
Hmmm don't know, but I installed Win7 64bit on my Vertex2 on the same port (p8z68pro) with no problems.

Maybe have to do with sata 6gb I believe your ssd supports, mine doesn't. I don't think you have to enable anything in the BIOS though......I'd just check your settings and try again 🙂
Dave
 
manderson said:
I tried this once with a Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB SSD. Had it plugged into one of the Intel SATA III ports, and two WD Black 2TB drives (RAID 1) on the Marvel controller to be used for data.
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I don't think you even need to use the Marvel sata unless you have alot of other drives. Thought you could just enable raid on the intel sata setup array on the WD's and leave the SSD alone.

If it was me I'd enable raid on the intel sata controller. Hook up my SSD(only) and install the OS. It should work I'd think then adding the WD's on the intel sata and setting up the array for them. Trim should also work on the SSD as long as it's not part of an array.
 
I dont know why you are getting this error, but first off update the bios. Link HERE

If that does not fix your problem I would suggest disconnecting ALL hard drives other than your C300 and make sure the C300 is connected to an Intel SATA III port and the DVDRW drive on an Intel SATA II port.

If that doesn't work, try disabling the Marvell controller.
 
Thanks for all of the support. I'll try disconnecting all drives except the SSD, install windows and apps, then connect the other drives. I might try loading the new, approved 0603 BIOS also, rather than keeping the beta. Staying away from the Marvel controller might be a good suggestion also. I never used it before, and it's not really necessary for my setup.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks again,

Mark A.
 
I like to disable all unused onboard controllers. Saves on some power usage and keeps things simple as well as reducing failure points. For example, I have the marvell controller, onboard audio, firewire and usb 3.0 all disabled. If I need them I can always enabled them, but for now they are pointless.
 
BrianTho2010 said:
I like to disable all unused onboard controllers. Saves on some power usage and keeps things simple as well as reducing failure points. For example, I have the marvell controller, onboard audio, firewire and usb 3.0 all disabled. If I need them I can always enabled them, but for now they are pointless.
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Totally agree. I disable eveything that is not being used. Personally, I never buy a MB with onboard video, and I wish they would still make them without audio. Never had a MB with audio that didn't buzz. My audio card is outboard firewire and perfectly clean, albeit fairly high quality for home studio hobbyist. And this is the first time I even attempted to use the Marvell controller. I wish I could use it for the SATA CD\DVD burner, but something about this controller causes serious latency issues, rendering the audio card useless unless you leave a CD in the drive for disk polling. So the Marvell controller will remain disabled. There is absolutely no problem with the SATA CD\DVD drive on the Intel controller. I'm interested to see how the USB 3.0 speed compares to my external eSata drive. I leave these enabled because they are backward compatible and I use a lot of USB ports.

UPDATE: This is awesome! I rebuilt the computer last night and the SSD is working great as the primary with OS and apps. Did what you all recommended by disconnecting all of the other drives and installing everything on the SSD first. Installed the other drives and moved all of my data folders to the WD RAID 1 hard drive. Everything is working!

This is incredibly fast! Photoshop CS5 opens in 2 seconds! Office 2010 opens in milliseconds! :biggrin: And I really don't notice much difference having SATA III hard drives on SATA II ports.

Now, should I go serious overkill by getting another small SSD and put it on the open Intel SATA III port for disk caching? 😱

"Warp five; NOW Mr. Chekov!"

Thanks again to all.
 
manderson said:
Now, should I go serious overkill by getting another small SSD and put it on the open Intel SATA III port for disk caching? 😱
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Glad all worked out well for you. CS5 with SB and an SSD is nuts.

64 Gb is the max you can use for Intel SRT and as of now TRIM is not supported with an SSD in SRT, so make sure you get a drive with alot of spare space and a good controller.

Eventually I will put my data drive on conjunction with an SSD for SRT. Its a great feature that will really help improve the performance of my WD Black 2TB.
 
manderson said:
I wish I could use it for the SATA CD\DVD burner, but something about this controller causes serious latency issues, rendering the audio card useless unless you leave a CD in the drive for disk polling. So the Marvell controller will remain disabled. There is absolutely no problem with the SATA CD\DVD drive on the Intel controller.
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I had the same problem with my Lite-ON BD drive on the native Intel 6Gb/s ports. If there was no disk in the drive, the DPC latencies shot through the roof, and audio/video playback would stutter horribly. I have since moved the drive over to the 3Gb/s ports, and it works fine now. If I remember correctly it was Windows' own ATAPI driver that was causing the high DPC latencies. If you were having the same trouble on the Marvell controller, then it seems like the driver is not compatible with 6Gb/s ports no matter whether it's on the Intel or Marvell controllers. There's also the possibility that my drive just needs a firmware update (I haven't checked to see if there is one).
 
MrTransistorm said:
If you were having the same trouble on the Marvell controller, then it seems like the driver is not compatible with 6Gb/s ports no matter whether it's on the Intel or Marvell controllers.
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I believe you nailed it with this statement, because I did have the same problem with CD\DVD drive on the 6GB Intel port.

Don't know if you've ever been to www.gearslutz.com, but it might be a good place for us to find an answer under the Music Computers forum.
 
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