Worth buying a SATAIII controller card?

machinist · 18 Jan 2011 at 15:19

As per my other thread today, I've just bought a Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB drive and wondered if it would be worth pairing it with a SATAIII controller card to get the best out of the drive?

Any thoughts?

Thanks

CAPTAINBUMFLUFF · 18 Jan 2011 at 15:23

I would personally you will get about a 25% increase in read speeds. But your write speeds won't improve.

However if you are planning to upgrade to one of the new SB processors or Bulldozers in the next few months, I would wait as most of those boards will support sata 3

machinist · 18 Jan 2011 at 15:30

The one I have my eye on is a Lycom card using PCI-E interface....would that be OK?

Philtor · 18 Jan 2011 at 15:38

I would have a look at the Highpoint Rocket myself mate. Done very well in the Custom PC Mag testing

machinist · 18 Jan 2011 at 15:54

OK thanks

shadow_boxer · 18 Jan 2011 at 17:16

How about the Asus U3S6 card?

gazzaman2k · 25 Feb 2011 at 00:25

shadow_boxer said:
How about the Asus U3S6 card?

i wouldnt bother with one i brought one for use on my computer and its slower then the onboard sata 2 ports by far, on the benchmark im only getting 250 max as on my mobo im getting near 400 with my intel 25m 80gb ssd

dante6491 · 25 Feb 2011 at 15:04

shadow_boxer said:
How about the Asus U3S6 card?

Does that work with any motherboard? The compatibly list on their website lists so many, but, for example they include M4A79T Deluxe but not M4A79 Deluxe.

gazzaman2k · 26 Feb 2011 at 17:33

workig on my abit ip35 pro but the sata 3 is slower then sata 2 onboard, but the usb3 works great