GSATA? what the duece?

[Chronobodi]

I already filled up my 3 SATA ports, since my 2 HDDs and DVD drive ate up the remaining normal SATA plugs.

Now i got two left on my Gigabyte AM3 UD5P mobo, however, they are "GSATA"

What does the G stand for? anything i should know about before i buy another HDD or maybe Blu-Ray and end up useless?

 

[evongugg]

They are proprietary Gigabyte SATA ports. You need a driver in order to use them. Not as fast as the regular Intel SATA ports.

 

[Chronobodi]

ahhh... so, i installed the motherboard dvd a while ago, would those contain the drivers?

 

[evongugg]

Yes, it would have the drivers on it.