Setting Up a SSD on X58 Marvell Controller

[Max Payne]

Hello all,

I bought a ssd recently to give my aging X58A system a performance bumb, i ended up buying sandisk extreme 240GB, to hook it up to my Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Revision 2 motherboard, i expected it to be a smooth setup just like installing a hard drive but unfotuntley i was wrong especially in my case, i plugged it into the sata3 marvell controller and did some benchmarking with as ssd and this what i got

AS SSD Benchmark 1.6.4237.30508
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Name: SanDisk SDSSDX240GG25 ATA Device
Firmware: R201
Controller: pciide
Offset: 1024 K - OK
Size: 223.57 GB
Date: 22/10/2012
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Sequential:
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Read: 272.33 MB/s
Write: 197.97 MB/s
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4K:
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Read: 19.08 MB/s
Write: 46.05 MB/s
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4K-64Threads:
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Read: 24.27 MB/s
Write: 63.32 MB/s
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Access Times:
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Read: 0.103 ms
Write: 0.238 ms
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Score:
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Read: 71
Write: 129
Total: 241
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what i want to know is how to set my ssd to work on full speed on my current motherboard ? is there someone around here manged to get his ssd work decently with a similar setup. if so, can you please show me how, I'm a total noob this the first time i deal with a ssd, I've heard Marvell controllers are not as good as intel so im not expecting 500MB/s but at least something close to 400MB/s anyone know how to set this ssd on my current specs to work at a decent speed.

Thanks in advance

 

[drescherjm]

1. Turn on AHCI in your BIOS
2. Plug the drive in the Intel SATA II ports.

This should give you the best SSD performance (random 4K reads and writes, IOPS) in most applications but will not give you the best sequential benchmark score (which should not matter since you will generally not be copying GB files around all day with your SSD.

 

[Max Payne]

1. Turn on AHCI in your BIOS
2. Plug the drive in the Intel SATA II ports.

This should give you the best SSD performance (random 4K reads and writes, IOPS) in most applications but will not give you the best sequential benchmark score (which should not matter since you will generally not be copying GB files around all day with your SSD.

so there is no hope for it to work on sata3 huh ?

 

[JayJapanB]

1. Turn on AHCI in your BIOS
2. Plug the drive in the Intel SATA II ports.

This should give you the best SSD performance (random 4K reads and writes, IOPS) in most applications but will not give you the best sequential benchmark score (which should not matter since you will generally not be copying GB files around all day with your SSD.

Seconded.
Experience: Rampage 3 Extreme + 2 SSDs

 

[drescherjm]

I've heard Marvell controllers are not as good as intel so im not expecting 500MB/s but at least something close to 400MB/s

Maximizing the sequential transfer rate while sacrificing IOPS, 4K reads / writes will make most applications slower. Noticeably slower possibly not.


You may also want to run ATTO since your drive uses compression to achieve its quoted performance levels.