Intel Motherboards : Quick Extreme 7+ M2 SSD question

Author: parsec
Subject: Quick Extreme 7+ M2 SSD question
Posted: 13 Jan 2017 at 12:41am

apachehavok wrote: Gotcha!!! So my 2 SSD's that require speed (boot and game drive 1) will be plugged into SATA3_0 and1 The other SSD's are more for storage and I can keep them plugged into the A controller ones. How much slower is that Asmedia controller?  We talking night and day difference?  Terrible?  Or only a little bit slower that might not even be detected? Running windows 10 so I will for sure look at that optimize thing!  THanks for the info! So according this this image: https://technastro.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/img_8368.jpg If I don't plug ANYTHING into those far left SATA ports (the only ones that face upward) then I should be free to use the bottom M.2 correct? Are the M2 slots different?  Like is the top M2 faster then the bottom or is it ok to use the bottom M2 as the only M2 drive. THanks all!!!!

The "SATA III" ASMedia SATA ports are significantly slower than the Intel SATA III ports. They are faster than a SATA II port, but not in the league of the Intel ports.

The main reason I mentioned the ASMedia ports and SSDs is, I have noticed in the past that the Windows Optimize, manual TRIM feature failed to work with SSDs connected to the ASMedia SATA ports. The scary implication of that... seemingly no TRIM support on the ASMedia SATA ports.

If true, which my testing a while ago seemed to confirm, that may be simply a driver issue. We have two choices for the AHCI driver with the ASMedia SATA ports, their own driver or the Windows storahci.

I should test that again, as I've not used the ASMedia SATA ports for this reason for a long time.