[RESOLVED] Marvell SATA-6G SSD Performance vs Intel ICH10

[Falcon Speed]

Basing from this article: http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...1&limitstart=0

It recommends using ICH10 over Marvell 9128. My board has Marvell 9128 which supports SATA3. ICH10 only supports SATA2.

Two questions:
-Does the cables matter if I was to switch over SATA3?
-Does this mean to stay away from Marvell?

Here is my board:
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/pro...d=3450&dl=1#sp

[Train]

It seems you are mixing up the motherboard controller and the one in the SDD.
They are totally different and unrelated controllers. As each item has a different controller.

[Falcon Speed]

Correct me if I am wrong.

On my motherboard, I am aware that there are 4 controllers.

-South Bridge(ICH10)
-Marvell 9128 chip
-GIGABYTE SATA2 chip
-JMicron JMB362 chip

The only controller that support SATA3 is Marvell but the article said to stay away from it and stick with ICH10.

Here is another one.
http://thessdreview.com/Forums/raid-...ocking/691.htm

[Train]

This says it qall in my book.

The Marvell 9128 has a PCI-e x1 speed limitation regardless of onboard or card implementation. The chip was originally designed for HDD so 1 sata 3 SSD drive will saturate the chip and much moreso with 2 in R0.

Saw another guy who had 2 Vertex 3's on the newer Marvell 9182(which uses x2 lane speeds) located on his G1 Sniper mobo and he got just over 600MB/s read and around 500+ writes. Need a good Intel or AMD 6G chipset to reach max speeds with 2 sata3 drives.

[Falcon Speed]

I did a quick benchmark test against the controllers on my gigabyte board. I used a brand new hard drive. Seagate Barracuda SATA3 7200RPM. Marvell is the only controller on my board that is SATA3. The rest are SATA2.

[Train]

Now the Marvell only has PCI-e x1 speed limitation
Now which controller was used for this one?



Fact is each of them has double or more throughput that I have.

[Falcon Speed]

Now the Marvell only has PCI-e x1 speed limitation
Now which controller was used for this one?

I am not sure that I understand Train. That is the Marvell controller result.

[Train]

All 4 of them are Marvell?

I was wondering as you list:
-South Bridge(ICH10)
-Marvell 9128 chip
-GIGABYTE SATA2 chip
-JMicron JMB362 chip
as being on your controllers. And i thought the test was done with each one.
Plus even though the ICH10 may only be SATA 2 it has the PCI-E x2 bandwidth which overall makes it faster from what I gather from your links.

[Falcon Speed]

Oh, ok, I understand. Each of those tests were from each of those controllers. When you hoover the mouse on each picture, the controller type is within the filename. Let me see if I can update the type name so that it would be more meaningful for others too.

Thanks Train.

[Train]

Ok, the hover, which I had not done explains which is which.

Marvell still comes out the best one of your controllers for reading and the (ICH10) for writing.

Those two would be a toss up, depending on what I was doing. Writing maybe what is doing the most of for me. Your call depending what you do.