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difference between hard drive controllers on Asus motherboard

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georgel

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Hi,
I would like to post this here as well, after posting in the Storage forum, because it looks like there might be a possible issue with my motherboard.
I have an Asus P9X79 WS mobo that that has an Intel and a Marvell HDD controller. I had a WD RE 4TB drive connected on USB3 through an enclosure, and it started to fail.
When I connect it through the Intel controller, on any SATA port (6Gb or 3Gb), the WD Diagnostics Quick test and the error scan in HD Tune show me 10% bad sectors.

When I connect it via the Marvell, all tests are completely green, with 0.0% damage.
The SMART data shown are the same and show the drive as defective (items 0, C5 and C6).
Please see this post for more details
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1840232

The question is, could there be an issue with the Intel controller on the motherboard?

Thank you very much.
 
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