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I am running Windows 8 on a Z77 Chipset mobo, and it's all running swimmingly, but I want to put my documents/music/etc. on two HHDs running under RAID 1.
On my motherboard I have four SATA 3GB/s ports and two 6GB/s ports. All four are used (1 Bluray Optical Drive, 1 Spare HD, and the 2 I wish to turn into a RAID 1 drive).
My Windows 8 SSD drive is the 6GB/s controller altogether.
You can see my setup here:
So my question is:
If I turn the 3GB/s Controller into a Firmware RAID controller (using my Intel Z77 Chipset), will that negatively affect the non-RAID hardware plugged into it? I.e. Will the HDD or Bluray drive be slower/incompatible with being plugged into a non-AHCI controller?
I'm trying to figure out how this answers my question :-/ – Django Reinhardt – 2012-10-30T17:25:41.337
Do you have any documentation that backs up your "suspicion" that they won't be affected? – Django Reinhardt – 2012-11-09T15:25:16.703