What is Drive Xpert?

[quakey]

What is Drive Xpert? What does the program do?

 

[Proximon]

Those two differently colored SATA ports on your motherboard work with Drive Xpert. It's an easy way to configure RAID 0 or RAID 1 using the hardware of the motherboard. If you are not installing a RAID you don't need to insatall it, or activate it in BIOS.

 

[quakey]

You got a link where I can read more about this?

 

[IzzyCraft]

Proxi is right
Drive Xpert by asus is a very easy to do raid set up for 2 drives in raid 0 or 1 but these cannot be system drives just need to set up the sata drives into the 2 different colored sata ports on the mobo i think white and orange is still used.

 

[Proximon]

You got a link where I can read more about this?

Motherboard manual? Outside of that you can look for descriptions at ASUS.

 

[ausch30]

You got a link where I can read more about this?

http://tinyurl.com/agjysw


Bottom half of the page tells all about it
http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1282&pageID=4883

 

[Proximon]

OMG that's just a load of fun.

Tell me how you do that

 

[ausch30]

OMG that's just a load of fun.

Tell me how you do that

http://lmgtfy.com/

I almost fell off my chair the first time I saw that, enjoy.

 

[Proximon]

Thanks!

 

[fruitcake]

sorry for the thread revival
if im not looking to use it for RAID and just normal drives, can I use these still?
or is it only for RAID and cannot be used as normal SATA ports?
i.e. I cannot connect a SATA DVD-RW to it?

 

[Proximon]

My understanding is that yes, you can. I have not tried it myself.

 

[JakeN]

What needs to be done to make these (the orange and white ones) available as normal SATA ports? I can't even get the BIOS to see a disk plugged in to the orange SATA plug.

 

[ausch30]

JakeN, start a new thread and let us know what motherboard your talking about.