Is using a sata 3 card better than using the motherboard sata 3 port

Jamestee

Jamestee

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As the title suggest,

Would using a sata 3 pci card on my X58 board be better than using the motherboard sata 3 port? Or are they still both limited to the marvel firmware that’s restricting the full bandwidth of my 120G ssd at around 250 write and 380 read, would like to get around 500 for both.
If I realised I could have gotten a pci sata 3 card I wouldn’t off paid for a new mobo, then I wouldn’t of upgraded my ram and graphic card and save a bit off money, Don’t tell the wife lol

I’ve been giving a little advice before and I just want to comfier either way.

Thank you
 
yeah, if your motherboard doesn't support sata 3 then get a PCI E adapter provided you have one spare pci slot, EDIT well if you have a sata 3 port already it should be fine, there shouldn't be anything restricting it really.

what SSD have you got? By the way 380/250 read write is more than enough and I don't think you'll notice any speed increase beyond that.
 
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Honestly, not really. You'll see similar speeds from the SATA card to the Marvell controller. Just stick with what you have and wait until you feel the need to upgrade CPU/Motherboard, so you can get something with a native SATA 6Gbps controller.
 
Thanks for your reply, my board is a gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R (rev. 2.0) which as sata 3 and I'm using it at the momment with my corsair force 3 120G ssd, trouble is its using the marvel firmware which won't allow to get full bandwidth from my ssd and I won't to find out would there be any improvement if I got a pci card instead.

Just seen that last post , just gotten this board as well as I can't effort a newer one plus a new chip, I'm over clocking my i7 920 do on water at the mo but only got it stable at 3.8, can't seem to get it stable past that, anyway I think you answered my question that pci card would be the same.
 
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Yes as I believe that what is was tested on, just be nice to get close to 500mb read and write but I guess it won't happen, and im on achi In the bios
 
Jamestee said:
Yes as I believe that what is was tested on, just be nice to get close to 500mb read and write but I guess it won't happen, and im on achi In the bios
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You're not gonna see that on the Marvell controllers, or the common Marvell PCIe card (x1 i might add, so it can't even do 6gbps) I'm using an x8 PCIe Serveraid M1015 to get over 500/500 with an Agility 3 in Jbod mode, works a treat with a couple of 2 and 1.5tb drives in RAID1. Might add another 120gb Agility 3 for RAID 0 kicks and failure as i've lost TRIM already :D
 
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