SSD Controller for OCZ Vertex 3

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Hi,

I have recently purchased a couple of OCZ Vertex 3 240gb drives, however, it seems the general consensus is that the Marvel controllers are not great - this puts me in a precarious position due to me having an X58 Sabertooth.

I am toying with the idea of buying a PCI controller so that I can maximise performance, firstly, does this sound like a good idea, secondly, is there any particular 6GB/sec PCI controller that stands head and shoulders above the rest?

Thanks

-V
 
You have this mixed up, there are different controllers - on the motherboard and on the SSDs. The controller in question is on the SSD, and Vertex 3s are the latest Sandforce.

6GB/s interface is still a good idea as Vertex 3 cannot run at full speed on SATA 3GB/s
 
No, you have it mixed up. His board has Sata 3 provided by the abysmal Marvell controller that bottleneck sata 2 drives let alone a pair of sata 3 Vertex 3's.
 
Any thoughts on something like this:

Asus U3S6 USB3.0 & SATA 6Gbps PCI-Express Controller Card [U3S6]

This U3S6 connects to your PC's PCI-Express 2.0 port and can be used to hook up two USB 3.0 peripherals for data-transfer rates as fast as 5 Gbps. What's more, two internal SATA 6 Gbps connectors are available on the U3S6 controller card for linking up extra hard drives and peripherals.

- Bus Type: PCI-Express compatible with 4x, 8 and 16x
- 2 external USB 3.0 ports
- 2 internal SATA 6 Gbps ports
- Compatible motherboards: P7P55D Deluxe, P7P55D EVO, P7P55D PRO, P7P55D, P7P55D LE, P7P55 LX
- 2 SATA 6 Gbps cables included

Review:

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/storage/asus_pcie_gen2_sata6g_expansion_card/1

I cant seem to find what controller it uses though (might be blind). OCuk sells these and I cannot seem to find anything better.

Thoughts?
 
I have successfully confused myself, here is the pickle:

The Marvel 9128 chipset on the x58 boards is bottlenecking the OCZ Vertex 3's from what I read, but both controllers I have looked at have the Marvel 9128 chipset, including http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CC-004-SR&groupid=701&catid=49&subcat=424 which is recommended by OCUK.

Soo, the question, is the problem with the chipset in general or isolated to when the 9128 chipset is integrated on a motherboard (i.e, do PCI controllers with the same chipset suffer the safe performance 'issue').

I am starting to think there is not much benefit in getting a controller and sticking to the onboard SATA 3GB/s ports using the ICH10R.
 
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Go for a Areca, LSI, Adaptec card.

All these budget cards will make use of marvell controllers pretty much across the board.

Even the Highpoint cheap cards make use of this controller though newer revisions will probably perform a lot better.

That is why they are cheap.
 
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Does'nt that Asus card only work with certain boards?

I was looking at some reviews of the LSI cards this morning and they are very quick. Expensive though.
 
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