UD3R REV 2.0 + RAID 0 (SATA 3)

[Aussie Allan]

  Your from my camp.......My wife still is amazed that if you ask......generally you come out better off......what's the worst that can happen....NO!......Oh Well .....I had to ask!...........78!.......Bargain!

  You will not be disappointed.......Any free slot should be fine......I have mine in second from the bottom......enjoy!

  Please as DM said.......post the results up for us......But more importantly.....the difference in performance over the Marvell to convince the masses

  Aussie Allan

[Dark Mantis]

Please as DM said.......post the results up for us......But more importantly.....the difference in performance over the Marvell to convince the masses

Exactly, couldn't have put it better myself.

[KyrreS]

10-4

[Dark Mantis]

10-4=6

[Aussie Allan]

  10-65

  AA

[derekc]

I have been trying for weeks to obtain near to the advertised speed for my SSD (Kingston HyperX 120GB) with a UD3R.  Does this post (which I found while searching for a solution) explain why?
I take it that I can do nothing without spending more money!!

Derekc

[Aussie Allan]

  What the advertised speed ?......What speed are you getting......what Ports are you using ?..........How much do you have connected to the board?

  Aussie Allan

[derekc]

Max read 555   max write 510   
Getting    382                     135   from CrystalMark 3.01  x64.     Atto benchmark agrees.

4 other internal drives plugged including another SATA iii.

Using GSATA 6/7.   Radeon 6970 connected to board.


Thanks for your interest in my inquiry


Derek.

[Aussie Allan]

  GSATA is controlled By Marvell.....on this board.....only good enough for DVD......Intel ICH10R port you will find is the fastest on-board port you can attach too!.......this should get you to low to mid 400s

  Aussie Allan

[derekc]

Thanks for reply.

I was thinking of trying a Startech 2-Port SATA III 6Gbps PCI-Express Controller Card, and plugging the SSD into it.

Would this work?  The downside seems to be that it has a Marvell chipset!! and I'm not 100% sure that the system will boot from it.

 

[Aussie Allan]

   The only 6G compliant Raid card that I know of that is bootable and under 120 Pounds is the High point Rocket Raid 640 PCI-E card......(I have one) this carries not one but 2 raid controllers over the 620 which carries only one (Lower performance with 2 drives).......funnily enough......they carry the Marvell Monica (88SE9128) but they seem to work rather well on this PCB

  Startech 2-Port SATA III 6Gbps PCI-Express Controller Card.......Don't know anything about them .... you have to be sure wether there bootable, have Raid 0,1,5, 10 and JBOD ......that's what the 640 will give you.........as well as 25-30seconds extra boot time......but once there up.........they fly!

  Aussie Allan

[derekc]

Thanks!!  We'll find out the hard way!!!

[Dark Mantis]

It also sounds like you may have the port in question set to IDE mode. If that is the case you are going to need to change it over to AHCI before getting anything like full speed.

[derekc]

Thanks.

As far as I know we have the port set to AHCI.  Are you referring to the GSATA 3 6/7?

[Dark Mantis]

The Marvell controlled ports are not a lot of use at all to be honest. It won't help by making them AHCI. Just as well leave them in IDE mode and use for optical drives etc.