Sata III add on card for SSD use?

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xBanzai89

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I have a Crucial M4 64GB that I had with my previous SATA III mobo, but that is gone now I am stuck with SATA II now. With the recent firmware boost I am wanting to get SATA III again. I have a open PCI-e 2.0 x4 slot on my mATX mobo and I was wondering if there is any good products out there for this. I probably want to keep this under $30 as anymore I would rather get a new mobo probably or it wouldn't be worthwhile.

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No, the only way is with a very expensive card and even then, it's not worth it for just one SSD.
 
Yeah I saw some sub $30 ones on Newegg, but I figured they may just be junk. Thanks for clearing that up.
 
Rocket 62X or one of the many other off brand ones using the same Marvell chipset are usually under $30. I've test a M4 on a Rocket 620 and Rocket RAID 640 though they get numbers as high as on a high end RAID controller w/ cache and read ahead features they both benched at advertised speeds. I haven't re-test w/ new firmware, actually I haven't even loaded the new firmware on any of my M4s yet.

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Sure, you get "SATA3" sequential speeds, but what really matters, IOPS, is hit by such chips, the chipset SATA2 ports are better.
 
bottom line there isn't really a solid SATA-III PCIe card yet, at least not in the price range you're talking about, you're better off getting a motherboard with a decent SATA-III implementation (Intel > Marvell).
 
odditory said:
bottom line there isn't really a solid SATA-III PCIe card yet, at least not in the price range you're talking about, you're better off getting a motherboard with a decent SATA-III implementation (Intel > Marvell).
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There ya have it. ;)
 
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