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Question About SSD Controller

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Spunkyasp

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Hello,

Sorry if this is the wrong forum, but I am new in the forum :). I recently purchased the new performance 3 hard drive but I'm not sure where to plug it in. On the Corsair website, it says that it is a Marvell Based hard drive. However, I was reading up some threads on this forum and people say that Marvell is slow. So I'm not sure if I should plug in the drive into the Marvell controller or the sata III port on the P8P67 WS Revolution board.


Thanks in advance!
 
The Intel sata 6gb/s ports on the P67 boards are benchmarked to be faster then the Marvell 6 gb/s ones.

However be sure to avoid the Sata 3 gb/s ports for now, especially as it is a SSD. If you are extra cautious or paranoid, I'd stick with the Marvell's until the fixed Cougar Point chip is out.
 
limitedaccess said:
The Intel sata 6gb/s ports on the P67 boards are benchmarked to be faster then the Marvell 6 gb/s ones.

However be sure to avoid the Sata 3 gb/s ports for now, especially as it is a SSD. If you are extra cautious or paranoid, I'd stick with the Marvell's until the fixed Cougar Point chip is out.
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I'll be careful by not using the Sata II ports but I'm still not sure whether Corsair designed the drives to be used with the Intel ports. It says the following on the website;

Performance 3 Series solid-state drives combine the latest Marvell controller and supercharged synchronous NAND to eliminate bottlenecks and provide the serious 6Gbps SATA III bandwidth you need for cutting edge video and graphics.

So my question is, by using the Marvell ports, am I taking a serious performance risk?
 
Spunkyasp said:
So my question is, by using the Marvell ports, am I taking a serious performance risk?
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No. The controller on the SSD is independent of the storage controller on your motherboard.

BTW, I'd RMA that board to get the SATA300 ports fixed. ;)
 
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