Only 2 sata3 on Asus p8z68

[Tbone_18]

The Asus p8z68 only has 2 SATA3 headers, and I understand you can use some device to run multiple drives through the same header, but does that slow down the throughput?

 

[rwpritchett]

You don't run more than one drive on a single SATA connector. One connector, one device.

BTW, the P8Z68 has 4x SATA2 headers, and 4x SATA3 headers:

SATA is backwards compatible... you can connect SATA2 and SATA1 devices to SATA3 ports and they will work.

 

[Leaps-from-Shadows]

The Z68 chipset has two SATA3 ports (gray) and the Marvell controller has two SATA3 ports (dark blue). The Marvell ports don't perform as well as the Intel ports do.