Add on SATA 3 Card for GA-790FXTA-UD5

[teknology9]

Hello All,

I wondered if anyone knows of an internal PCI-e SATA3 interface card which I could add to my MB. I know Highpoint do a card but I think it is RAID and it would see  2 separate HDD as one. I want to attach it to a SSD so both interfaces are SATA 3 rather than using on the onboard SATA 2 ports.



Cheers,

Teknology9

[Dark Mantis]

Hi

I expect Allan can help you with this one as he has one of these cards and knows quite a lot about them. Personally I would have thought that even as a RAID card it should be able to see and run drives individually also.

[teknology9]

Hi DM,

I've just PM'd him and he doesn't know.  

I only want it for 1 SSD, 2 HDD will be connected to the GSATA 6_7 ports.


Cheers,

Thanks for the response

Teknology9

[Dark Mantis]

Do they have a forum you could ask on ?

[teknology9]

They being Highpoint or Lindy?

No, it looks like neither have a forum.

[Dark Mantis]

I was meaning Highpoint but anywhere you might get an answer would do.

[teknology9]

I have googled it but no joy, ASRock do one for there own MB, the Lindy card has the Marvell 9128 chip and cost about £45.

[Dark Mantis]

I would only consider a Marvell 9128 solution if there are at least two of the chips on board.

[teknology9]

This is the one

http://www.lindy.co.uk/2-port-sata-3-card-pcie/51401.html

[Dark Mantis]

In that case I personally wouldn't touch it as it probably doesn't work properly with only the single Marvell chip. It would be the same scenario as the onboard solutions Marvell had for motherboards and SATA3.

[teknology9]

Thanks for that DM, much appreciated. That's £45 saved and put towards a SSD.

Teknology9

[Dark Mantis]

Makes more sense if you ask me! 

[teknology9]

Thanks DM, absic gave me this good advice a  while back also, just waiting for the cost of SSD's to fall a bit.

[Dark Mantis]

Yes I don't think it will be very long before we see a respectable drop in prices for SSDs as they have been around for a while now and there have been a couple of updated versions now. As they take over the market hopefully the laws of scale will start kicking in and the prices will drop significantly.

[teknology9]

   Update

I can't wait that long................off to Scans website!!!