SSD in raid 0

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As i have described in other posts, the marvell 9128 SATA 3 on motherbaords isn't a true speed for bandwidth. I am wondering if i could get a true speed of an ssd through a raid 0 through two SATA 3 ports.

Would this match the speed of the marvell 9182?
 
robbalmbra said:
As i have described in other posts, the marvell 9128 SATA 3 on motherbaords isn't a true speed for bandwidth. I am wondering if i could get a true speed of an ssd through a raid 0 through two SATA 3 ports.

Would this match the speed of the marvell 9182?
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RAID 0 would require you to have 2 SSD's,

You can't RAID 2 SATA ports together and connect them to 1 drive.

It seems that's what you were thinking unless I've misunderstood your post.
 
Have you benchmarket the SSD to see what sort of speeds you're getting?

The Marvell controller might not provide the best SATA 3 connection but it's not exactly slow.

RAID 0 in theory gives the speed of each individual drive added together but it doesn't usually work out that perfectly.

You ideally need 2 identical drives.

Each drive in theory will work up to the limit of its own speed or that of the controller, whichever is lowest.
 
I have benchmarked the read speed, roughly about 200-250mbps, but I just want to use the ssd's full potential. I was looking at mobos on here and I can't seem to find a 1366 socket which has a true native 6gbps controller.

I'm also wondering if I could buy a mono from here then put a data 3 pci express card into it - if they exist?

I do believe LSI sell them but they are far out of my range.
 
You won't find a S1366 board with native SATA 3 because they don't support it.

The cheaper ~£30 SATA 3 add in cards also use a Marvell controller so I'm not sure you'd be any better off.

Does the Marvell controller support AHCI and if it does did you use that mode when you installed Windows?
 
The higher range of asus boards and gigabyte boards do have a native 6bps connection, I think. The Rampage black edition, also some gigabyte boards including: Gigabyte G1.Guerrilla X58 Gaming Motherboard.
 
robbalmbra said:
The higher range of asus boards and gigabyte boards do have a native 6bps connection, I think. The Rampage black edition, also some gigabyte boards including: Gigabyte G1.Guerrilla X58 Gaming Motherboard.
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No X58 motherboard can have native SATA 3 ports because the chipset doesn't have them.

All SATA 3 ports on any X58 motherboard are from an add on controller.
 
OK, in that case i will buy a new motherboard without native, would i see a boost in preformance if I did have native relative to the marvell 9128 controller?
 
robbalmbra said:
OK, in that case i will buy a new motherboard without native, would i see a boost in preformance if I did have native relative to the marvell 9128 controller?
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:confused:

Why would you buy a new motherboard without native SATA 3?

Do you mean you'll buy a new motherboard with native SATA 3?

You can't buy an X58 motherboard with native SATA 3 as I've said.

If you want to buy a motherboard with native SATA 3 then you'll have to buy a new motherboard, processor and possibly RAM.

Your existing processor won't fit in any motherboard with native SATA 3.

Is it worth it to get your SSD a bit faster?

I'm sure your system isn't exactly slow with the speed you're getting now.
 
If you have the original OCZ Agility 60GB SSD (as it says in your sig.) then the maximum read spead of those is up to 230MB/s according to OCZ.

If you're currently getting 200-250MB/s then you're getting all you're going to get.

The Agility 3 has a maximum read of 525MB/s but you usually don't see the maximum theoretical speed in real world usage.
 
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