marvell sata 6Gb/s Vs intel sata 3Gb/s

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Hi, I have 2 x 128Gb M4 ssd running off the intel sata 6Gb/s ports and a seagate barracuda 6Gb/s running off the marvell Sata 6Gb/s ports, is it worth running the seagate barracuda off the marvell port or should i run it off the intel sata 3Gb/s ports. I know it sound like a stupid question and i could swap it and run a benchmark but im too lazy
Anyone done this already?. My board is MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) ports 7/8 are supported by Marvell 9128.
 
HDDs are limited by their spin speeds, so they don't even saturate SATA 2 speeds. I would just connect it to a SATA 2 port and disable the Marvell.
 
Orcvader said:
HDDs are limited by their spin speeds, so they don't even saturate SATA 2 speeds. I would just connect it to a SATA 2 port and disable the Marvell.
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+1 to this.

Disable the Marvell controller and it's one less thing to have to be initialised when you start the PC.
 
Done, im not that lazy after all, SSDs plugged into ports 1&2 intel sata 6Gb/s and seagate barracuda pugged into port 4 intel sata 3Gb/s.
Ran CrystalDiskMark
seagate barracuda in the marvell 6Gb/s port
crystalmarkmarvall6gbpo.png


seagate barracuda in the intell 3Gb/s port
crystalmarkintel3gbport.png

Is this what you would expect to see?
 
True.
So is there any point in buying a 6Gb/s HDD over a 3Gb/s HDD, or would you see a performance increase using a 6Gb/s sata port?:confused:
 
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB on Sata 3GB/s port, with ASRock X-Fast Ram caching the SSD and FancyCache caching the mechanical drives ;)



OCZ Agility 3 on 6GB/s Intel port.

 
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