Thanks for your kind words! We are always here to help when we can!
No worries, I'm just an AS SSD kinda guy so I wanted to see your previous scores so I could better see the differences on your setup. AS SSD isn't really ideal for Sandforce drives, so if your drive is Sandforce based don't use it often, ATTO is better for Sandforce drives.
Yes, the Intel is much better, other than higher sequential speeds the Marvell isn't good for anything else.
When you have a spare hour or two, I did a C300 review that compared several ontrollers and setups, including the ICH10R and Marvell 9182
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=261789I actually felt the same way about SSD's at first, and this was with a slow first gen Crucial M225 (Indiliinux controller). I used it for a week or two and though, meh it's ok but not fast at all really, especially nothing noticeable. Then I had to sell it because I badly needed something else to complete some testing, and so I went back to my spinning 1TB drive, and wow!! Instantly I felt like I was on a Pre-Pentium 4 computer, slower than molasses on dial-up. It was so bad I thought surely something was set wrong with my system, bad drivers, or something, it was terrible. Then after a day or so of use I realized it was the SSD I was missing, and then when I got my next one it was a newer faster one anyway (C300) and as soon as I put it back in everything felt normal again. No clicking and waiting around, open an app and it's there before I let go of the mouse button, ect.
You just don't know how fast an SSD really is until you use one for a while, then loose it and go back to a spinning drive, it's night and day and it's hard to realize this without going through something like that. Now anytime I work on someones computer without an SSD I dread the waiting around, I know it's coming anytime someone hands me a PC to work on even if it's a new PC with today's CPU's and boards.
I don't think they could use two Intel controllers, and SSD's were coming out with 6Gb/s interfaces, and that Marvell controller was the ONLY one around at the time, so they had to use it or nothing.
Be sure you enable write back cache too if you haven't already checked that. If you need to know where to check let us know.