Choice of connecting SSD interim backup drives to 6 GB/s ISATA or sSATA ?

Q1. Is there any difference? In speed or say overloading the CPU . instead of letting the PHC chipset do its work, or any bus constraints etc??

On the motherboard block diagram it only shows 5x SATA going to the C612 chipset, weirdly doesnt show the other 5x sSATA connectors? So no idea where they go to.

Q2. I have an old 500 GB ex laptop Tosh 7,200 rpm hdd. Thought I Would pop it in the rear quick release drive bays ( as there are 2 and I only have a budget for one 2TB HHd , so may as well use it.
But do I set this to AHCI or IDE ... Apparently I have to select something for every drive connected??
I assume AHIC... As thats what I set up for the Samsung.... But then thats an ssd?

Any help appreciated...

Not sure what Motherboard you are using but the C612 chipset is specced to handle 10 SATA ports.

AHIC, IDE is for optical drives and legacy drives at this point.

"iSATA" "sSATA"

sSATA likely just means "secondary" for the 2nd set of five ports.
The two sets means option of two RAID controllers,. two RAID 5 arrays etc.

I do not think there could be any speed advantage choosing one over the other.

Really appreciate the explanation. Especially as the motherboard manual doesn't give one any explanation.
It a Supermicro X10SRA ( a workstation variant of a server board ) I guess being a server company they assume proper IT guys will be buying it and dont explain the basics. And boy do I need that!
Before deciding to do this I didnt even know what a PCIe slot was lol

Contrasting Asus and MSI manuals really convey the basics as well as all the Overclocking stuff.

The strange thing is the systems block diagram ( the one that shows how the PCIe slots are connected, and whick ones can swith the lanes to other ones, and what hangs off the chipset and which go directly into the CPU etc. It only shows 5 Sata connectors yet as you rightly said states the C612 chipset supports 10x 6GBs Sata ( 5x I's and 5x s's )

I am sure you are right as on the HP Z series they have Sata and sSata - where sSATA are secondary ones.

Ah, Supermicro, they make some very mean Workstation and Server boards.

My last mega build "Skynet" graphics workstation was a SuperMicro, and I loved it!
Dual Opterons built back when AMD was faster (MUCH FASTER) than Intel's sad Pentium 4 offerings.

Thanks thats very reassuring - looks like a good quality build, but as a novice the instructions are how can I say written for a professional who knows what he is doing.
Whereas looking at Asus and MSI they tend to explain the detail more. Plus there are loads of things like Trusted Server Management, and DOM that I hopefully I dont need.

I just hope the extra ( 40 ) PCIe lanes will deliver a benefit.

Honestly I initially only got into Supermicro, as there was a great deal for £187 whereas the normal price was £255 to £275, and they should understand working with Xeon processors. So for me 3 x16 slots with 16 electrical lanes, and another x8 in a physical x16 slot was attractive - just hope it makes a difference.

My difficulty is with things like the Intel AC wi fi card, it comes with a tiny Bluetooth power lead and I have no idea where that goes to on this board?

I would select AHCI to get the maximum performance out of an SSD.
IDE is somewhat old school. AHCI also gets you the ability to Hot-Swap a drive.

Hope this helps,

110yd

Thanks