SSD Upgrade pointless with a Marvel controller?

smogsy · 17 Sep 2011 at 09:02

i was thinking of upgrading my WD Raptor to a Cosair M4, but everytime i see the word Marvell controller + SSD i just see bad benchmarks & people saying buying a new board

what do you think of going to SSD on a Marvell Controller?
here is my spec.
My Current Specfication is
i7 940 @ 2.93ghz
6GB Gskill
ASUS P6T Dexule OC Palm Edition
570GTX
ASUS DX 7.1
1000w Cosair
WD 300GB Raptor
640GB Caviar WD
1TB Samsung F3

Broken Hope · 17 Sep 2011 at 09:04

Bad benchmarks compared to an Intel SATA 3 connection, it will still **** all over your Raptor.

|Thomas| · 17 Sep 2011 at 09:20

Broken Hope said:
Bad benchmarks compared to an Intel SATA 3 connection, it will still **** all over your Raptor.

Exactly. The Marvel controller is still faster than a SATA 2 controller, it's just you probably won't be able to get the advertised read/write speeds of the M4.

In real life situations I doubt you could tell the difference between the intel and marvel controllers anyway.

DragonQ · 17 Sep 2011 at 09:21

Hmm you're the second person this week to think you have a Marvell SATA controller when you don't. All 6 of your SATA ports are Intel ICH10R, the best SATA 3 Gbps controller you can get. You do have a Marvell controller but only for the eSATA port and PATA port. You don't have SATA 6 Gbps of course but an SSD would still perform brilliantly compared to HDDs with this controller.

All of this information can be found on the Asus website.