If they are seriously not going to still offer Windows 7, this move will kill the PC as we know it. I would not buy a new rig if it only came with a phone OS.
Not that anyone else seems to care, but I got an official answer (of sorts) from ASUS support:
My question:
I am confused by the SATA ports. What are recommended usage for jmicron and
Marvell controllers? I tried putting Optical drives on Marvel ports and could not boot
(hung at...
I see, so I would have to initially boot from the SATA port 1 and then move the opticals after the controller for Marvell is enabled. I have to check on that.
I don't think I can get away with a small OS drive. I have an 80GB on my old PC and it's about 60GB full just with programs. Yeah I...
I just bought this board last weekend at Microcenter with an i7-860. I put the rig together and attached two Seagate 1TB to the first two SATA ports (of the 6 near the one jmicron controller SATA port). I then attached the two optical drives to the top ports (Marvell).
When I tried to boot...