Windows 10: go from sata 1 to sata 3 using an add on card and having it boot?

I have sata 3 drives, but the mother board is sata 1 which is slow.
MB is Aspen MSI 7548
MSI MS-7548 (Aspen) motherboards specifications

The mb has a free PCIEx1 version 2 slot open.
I have read you can buy an add on sata3 card to work with version 2 pcie x1 slot, BUT there is the question of can it boot from the addon sata card?

Does anyone know about these things?
Would it be bootable from the add on card?
Would win10 have problems being activated booting from an addon sata card?
would win10 have to be reinstalled?

any addon sata card recommends?

The great eventual idea is, the machine dual boots win7 and win 10 and boots from a sata 3 card so that it is faster, right now it is kinda slow to boot up and things like that. Slow enough just walk away and boil water while it boots.

:)

 

Storagespace, want to change SATA Controller for Devices

Hi all,

i've running a parity storage pool of 3 x 4TB Sata HDD's on two different 2 Port SATA Controller.

1. Could i switch thoose drives without loose of data to an other 4 Port SATA Controller?

For example:

1 x 3 x TB HDD on SATA Controller 1 Port 1

1 x 3 x TB HDD on SATA Controller 2 Port 0

1 x 3 x TB HDD on SATA Controller 2 Port 1

Swtiched to...

1 x 3 x TB HDD on SATA Controller 3 Port 0

1 x 3 x TB HDD on SATA Controller 3 Port 1

1 x 3 x TB HDD on SATA Controller 3 Port 2

2. What happens when i switch the assignment between the Controllers and the HDDs?

For example:

1 x 3 x TB HDD on SATA Controller 1 Port 1

1 x 3 x TB HDD on SATA Controller 2 Port 0

1 x 3 x TB HDD on SATA Controller 2 Port 1

Switched to...

1 x 3 x TB HDD on SATA Controller 2 Port 1

1 x 3 x TB HDD on SATA Controller 1 Port 1

1 x 3 x TB HDD on SATA Controller 2 Port 0

Please help me to figure out what happens in the two szenario's. I won't test this on my livesystem and there is no testsystem given.

Many thanks

 

SSD samsung 850 pro (512Gb) freezes randomly with storahci error - "Event ID 129 – storachi – Reset to device, DeviceRaidPort0, was issued"

I double checked my BIOS configuration and i have the following

1) SSD Samsung 850 Pro (512GB) is connected to port1 (sata-3) of the Intel chipset SATA Controller

2) SSD OCZ Vector-180 (480GB) is connected to port2 (sata-3) of the Intel chipset SATA Controller

3) BDRW Pioneer BDR-207 is connected to port4 (sata-2) of the Intel chipset SATA Controller

4) HDD WesternDigital WDC WD4003FZEX-00Z4SA0 (4Tb)

is connected to port1 (sata-3) of the Asmedia SATA Controller

So i'm 100% sure that all of two of my SSD including Samsung 850 Pro are connected to Intel Chipset Sata Controller to the sata-3 ports.

I'll try to install Asmedia SATA Controller Driver from the Asus Rampage V and let you know if problem presist.

 

I need to check the bios and see if there is any such thing in there like this.
If I hit escape key, it does bring up a boot menu listing devices, like other hard drives and usb

How to Boot from PCI SATA Card | eBay

 

Looking at bios screen, I dont see anything about booting from other devices.

If you cant run the os on a faster sata port, it is not worth bothering to use an add on card just for storage drives.

 

Other Drives do not appear in the bios, if the bios can accept add-on controllers, until there is an additional controller with a drive or drives attached.

Without you completing your PC specs fully it is impossible to say if it will work with your bios or not.

 

Simply the MB is out of a HP a6750f pavilion desktop PC.
Can this help you?

HP Pavilion a6750f Desktop PC Product Specifications | HP® Customer Support

Some time ago, I did update the bios to version 5.13, which supposedly supports AM3 cpu.

The MB defines the PC.

 

Motherboard is supposed to be SATA2 as your drives appear to be anyway, probably not really going to gain much if anything on booting, an SSD would probably give better results even at SATA2
You would also need SATA3 drives to get any benefit out out of a SATA3 card, add to that that not all SATA cards can be booted, I have one here that can't, doesn't show as a boot option or anything in the bios and doesn't show up on post however it works OK, didn't need to boot from it though anyway

 

Motherboard is sata 1, not sata 2, where do you see that?
Every I have looked says sata 1 ?
MSI MS-7548 (Aspen) - Best Compatible MSI MS-7548 (Aspen) Mobo

MSI MS-7548 (Aspen) motherboards specifications

The AMD 780G chip set which it uses says sata 2, but all the motherboard specs list sata 1.
It does have 6 sata ports.
How can I test the sata speed? I have 2 drives in there.

AMD touts a number of features in the 780G that are noteworthy:
- First AMD chipset with integrated digital DisplayPort output
- Support for up to 12 USB 2.0 connections, 6 AHCI based SATA 3.0 Gb/s ports with eSATA capability
- HD audio
- Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
- One x16 PCIe Gen 2 link
- HT 3.0
- DVI/HDMI interface
- Internal or external TMDS

 

So far looking at speed tests and trying to compare to sata versions is a wasteland of non info.

How would MB/sec results compare to Sata version speeds? Lots of hard drive speed utilities report MB/sec

 

ran online test for MSI Aspen 7548
what does this suggest?

 

Ok, here is more info. I ran that same online speed test on my other PC, a MSI 7596 motherboard which is listed as sata 2.
And the boot drive is the Hitachi 750gb sata 2 drive, and the results are lower than the aspen msi 7548 board?

Makes me think, the ASPEN board msi 7548 is sata 2, even though several web sites say sata 1.
I have a 3TB HGST ultrastar drive on the way which will go in the aspen msi 7548 PC and will retest end of next week.
https://www.hgst.com/sites/default/f...S7K4000_ds.pdf

And that WD Blue 1tb 2102 drive I think should have done much better! Look at the numbers here MB/sec
http://hdd.userbenchmark.com/Compare...013/1779vs1822

200 versus 87 in my sata 2 system

 

Hi,

Ultimately you're always going to be limited by the I/O throughput of that era but I do agree with Clam 1952 in that an SSD drive is your best option.
Sure I could show you how to run Windows from a drive in a PCIe slot that's not bootable but the gain in doing so is again limited by the rest of the hardware.

Cheers, *Wink

 

Hi, I would like to know how to do that even though I may never do that.

 

I dual boot the other PC which is the MSI 7596. A very simple way to find the speed is run this command
I can boot a live usb and do this on the Aspen board later.

scott@scott-MS-7596:~$ dmesg | grep -i sata | grep 'link up'

[ 2.160041] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 2.160063] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 2.164040] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)

scott@scott-MS-7596:~$

I loaded a picture of my 4 drives as reported by pulling info from the log. One is a sata 3
I also ran a read write test of the Toshiba which is the sata 3 drive. I need to do these tests on the aspen board