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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: Ulysses1337 on December 21, 2012, 10:26:55 pm

Title: Z77X-UP7: SATA controller selection
Post by: Ulysses1337 on December 21, 2012, 10:26:55 pm

I've ordered myself this kit:

GIGABYTE Z77X-UP7
Samsung 840 PRO Series (512GB)
2x Seagate Constellation ES (1TB)

The mobo has these controllers:

Intel Z77
Marvell 88SE9172

I want the SSD on its own and the spinners as a RAID 1 volume. What would be the best assignment of controllers?

Title: Re: Z77X-UP7: SATA controller selection
Post by: The_Assimilator on December 22, 2012, 01:15:01 pm

The Marvell 88SE9172 is slightly faster than the Z77 SATA2 ports, so put the SSD on the one of the Z77's SATA3 ports and the Constellations on a 88SE9172.

Z77 controller benchmarks (SATA3 & SATA2): http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/Z77X-UP7/11.html
88SE9172 controller benchmarks (SATA3): http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2012/05/09/gigabyte-ga-z77x-ud5h-review/6

Overall the 88SE9172 is around ~100MB/s faster than the Z77's SATA2 ports.