SATAII or GSATAII

[driftwood07]

My board (GA-965P-DQ6) has 6 available SATAII connectors controlled by
the ICH8R chipset and then 2 GSATAII connectors controlled by GIGABYTE SATA 2.
I am running 2 SATA 2 hard drives (one for OS one for storage -no raid-) and am wondering if I should be using one option over the other in terms of speeds.

here is a snapshot of the manual for the board describing the two options.

 

[lopri]

Use the ICH8R. GSATA is just a marketing name for JMicron-based ports. Those JMicron ports seem to work well for hot-swap, though.

 

[n7]

Test for yourself?

HDTune is a great free benchmark you can easily run yourself to see which one is faster

 

[driftwood07]

Originally posted by: n7
Test for yourself?

HDTune is a great free benchmark you can easily run yourself to see which one is faster

yea thats a good recommendation that i will try.
HDTune is actually what made me wonder this to begin with though.
i am currently using the GSATA for my 2 harddrives and my primary hdd
with os/apps is a hitachi desktar 160gb (HDS722516VLSA80) and it scored:
Minimum: 19.3 mb/sec
Maximum: 58.2 mb/sec
Average: 44.8 mb/sec
Access Time: 13.4 ms
Burst Rate: 103.3 mb/sec
CPU Usage: 2.1%

Those min/max/avg transfer rates scores seemed extremely low to me for a sata drive, and make me think that my harddrive is probably the bottleneck of my system, especially when compared to the thread posting speeds for different drives, where their min
is closer to my max and their max is in the 100s, and these arent even raptors.
I see in the info that this model only supports SATA I , is this maybe why the low speeds?
(my secondary hdd is a samsung 400 gig sata II which scored fairly better with a max in the 80s)

 

[n7]

Those speeds aren't that abnormal for an older smaller HDDs, but again, test for yourself

It's the best way to know.