Gigabyte X58A-UD9 review

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Gigabyte X58A-UD9 review

We see Reset and Power on buttons. I kind of like them to be located to the left side of the motherboard, but this'll work as well.

Gigabyte X58A-UD9 review

Overall board design is just great. Everything is positioned really well. Let's move onwards to the left side where we stumble into a bunch of SATA connectors, let's zoom in a little.

The motherboard features six right-angle SATA II (3Gb/s) ports which are supplied by the chipset and they support AHCI and RAID 0/1/5/10. In addition to the regular six SATA II ports, colored in white we see another two additional SATA 3 (6 GBit) ports, powered by a Marvell controller. Then another controller by Gigabyte supplies 2 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors.

Gigabyte X58A-UD9 review

They support RAID 0/1 and JBOD to achieve RAID - select AHCI in the BIOS then during boot access the Marvell controller where you can set RAID levels. Yet another JMicron controller brings support for two eSATA / USB combo ports on the I/O panel. You'll have massive storage connectivity at your disposal alright.

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