so as some of you may have heard there's been lots of hubub all over the
internets about this but Intel's Sandy
bridge chipsets that is the p67 and h67
chipsets are affected by a bit of an
issue that can cause the SATA 2 3 gbit
pers second ports on your motherboard to degrade slowly over time and then die
okay so basically right now is if you
look around on the major etail sites you probably can't buy a Sandy Bridge board
looks like it's probably going to be around the April May time frame before
you can actually buy a Sandy Bridge board but I'm going to show you guys if
you already have a system based on p67 or h67 chipsets how you can prevent this
issue from affecting you in the near term while you wait for the replacement
boards to come on the market and for yours to be swapped for one okay so you
can see right here the way I have my Sandy Bridge system set up is that I
have my two SATA 2 devices that is my DVD burner as well as my Intel x25 M SSD
plugged into these two ports so you can see right here that these are SATA 3g5
SATA 3 G6 SATA 3 G3 and SATA 3 G4 so
what I'm going to do and you're going to need to consult the manual of your
particular motherboard find the section
about the internal IO connectors and
which ones are which in this case they are labeled on the board and you are
going to want to take those ports unplug them from any devices and plug them into
one of the SATA 3 6 gbit pers second
ports on your board so in this case these two are running off the Intel
chipset and those are still okay even though they're running off the same
chipset as the SATA 23 gbit per second ports and I could also plug them into
these ones which are running off of a third party chipset so any one of these
four port is fine to run my devices off
of in the meantime now bear in mind that
Intel recommends or Intel advises that
the SATA 2 3 gbit per second ports are more likely to die from heavy use so by
avoiding using those ports or let's say for example you have a three Drive
configuration you have an SSD a hard drive and you have an optical drive and
you only have two SATA 3 6 GB per second ports well Intel recommends you lightly
use the SATA 2 ports if you have to so
you take your SSD and your hard drive and you plug them into these ones so you
don't get any data corruption or potentially even data loss by using the
good say the 3 6 gbit per second ports and then you take your optical drive
which unless you're burning a DVD which
probably is a very lowrisk sort of thing if something goes wrong so you take any
sort of non-critical devices and plug those into the SATA 2 3 gbit per second
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