If your not a sandy bridge owner, please don't vote. What course of action is everyone going to take? Main comment thread here
might as well just wait, no one will be affected yet and i cant see anyone having any problems before replacements are offered, its a minor inconvenience yes but its one that is being blown out of all proportion tbh
Ah i thought there would be a poll. Well I'm annoyed slightly no doubt, but i feel it is being brought over the top. First there is only a 5-15% chance of failure. Second id that it only applies to the 3gbs ports and not the 6gbs ones. Since HDD's aren't even saturating 3gbs port a little degration won't matter that much as you still have the 6gbs ones for SSD's At first, I though it would be worse. But after things settelling it doesn't seem to be as bad. I do like though that it is being admitted and companies like MSI are calling back the boards. If Asus decide to recall the boards i probably won't be sending mine back unless it's noticeable. The only thing I have learnt was that gigabyte will be my next motherboard.
I'm going to keep my UD4 until the new boards are out in volume, and then RMA it. Don't see any point in sending it off now as my system still works, and I'd rather have a working box than a shell for weeks. Only real annoyance is that I'll have to take the cooler off the 2500K, clean both and get more Arctic Silver.
Agreed, changed to SATA 6Gbps in the meantime, though I'm suspicious of the Intel 6Gbps controller... my 1TB drive is giving click of death like sounds on the 6Gbps Intel ports only, fine on the Marvell controller and the 3Gbps. I'm wondering if this flaw will affect resale value in the future... how will we be able to identify a board with the dodgy ports as opposed to one without? I really wouldn't want to be the guy they're gonna hang for this.
Must admit until Intel's press release, I had not seen any owners moaning about SATA performance or degradation. May be they should of just keeped quite, and just moved to a Rev 2 P/H67 chipset, and we would have never been any wiser. That’s what all the SSD manufactures have done :=)
I'm keeping mine and I doubt I will bother to change the board when readily available. I don't care about resell value, I just sell it to friends and tell them 'the SATA 3gb/s are crap, use the 6gb/s only'. My friends don't use more than 2 - 3 SATA drives anyway so it is a non issue. Persnally I am glad I bought mine when I did - considering the issue does not effect me I would hate to have to wait until April to build a PC
I think mine may have already failed, one of my HDDs only works if I plug it into the Marvell 6.0Gb/s port. Driving me nuts because I have three HDDs; one is already full, one is totally empty and one is an SSD. I can't seem to get all three to work at the same time.
