ssd and mobo compatability

Jobe · 16 Aug 2011 at 18:22

as the title says really.

mobo is a P6X58D-E.

it says it has 6gb/sec sata. is this the right thing for an ssd?

looking through the other threads, i'm not sure which is the right drive to get either.

looking at 120gb.

any advice welcome.

ta

jobe

Surveyor · 16 Aug 2011 at 20:52

The SATA 6Gb/s ports on that motherboard are from a Marvell controller.

Marvell controllers are not particularly good.

Jobe · 16 Aug 2011 at 21:57

does that mean it won't run at the rated speeds?
runs unreliable?

also so many stories of the ocz drives being very unreliable but all the rest seem to be so much slower.

jobe

Surveyor · 16 Aug 2011 at 22:34

Jobe said:
does that mean it won't run at the rated speeds?
runs unreliable?

also so many stories of the ocz drives being very unreliable but all the rest seem to be so much slower.

jobe

It means a lot of people find they don't run anywhere near 6Gbp/s and in some cases they aren't that much better than the Intel SATA 3Gb/s ports.

From this thread here's a Crucial M4 128GB on an Intel 6Gbp/s port:

And the same drive on a Marvell 6Gbp/s port:

They do seem to have used IDE mode in the last one though.