Quote Originally Posted by FeRaL View Post
Quick question, are you able to boot from the SATA 3.0 ports? I heard that on the x58a-UD5 you cant...

Quote Originally Posted by KorbenD View Post
Yes, you can. Worked fine with a Seagate 7200.12 1GB drive.
My Vertex boots fine on SATA3 port too, but I couldn't see any performance increase or any other benefits.

You can boot on SATA3 port, but you need a SSD with real SATA3-controller to take advantages of it.