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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: varkanoid on August 07, 2011, 09:09:49 am
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Hi
anyone know the dimensions of the SSD's that fit the new Z68 boards ? I have a spare SSD with micro sata I was going to try but looking at the motherboard picture mine looks a bit wide and may not fit due to the adjacent pcie slot ?
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Hi
I am not sure but I don't think that a normal SSD is interchangeable with the one fitted on the motherboard. It was my first thought that it could be replaced with something a bit bigger/faster but the situation is more complex than that.
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not really complex its just a matter of size and providing its got a micro sata connector any should fit.
Found out the ones used are 2.59cm wide and mine is 4cm wide so prob wouldnt fit. I'm after the Z68AP-D3 which has the micro sata slot but no SSD.
in any case you can still use a SSD drive connected to the normal SATA II ports for smart response.
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in any case you can still use a SSD drive connected to the normal SATA II ports for smart response.
Yes I realise that but it would be nice to get one to fit in the correct slot.
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For what it's worth!
I wish I had one of these new iSSD boards to really try out and go through all of the chips on the board ...... although the specs state only a single Marvell 88SE9172 controller is in place, which I don't doubt, ....as this is the chip replacing the problematic 9128 on the X58/67 boards which sadly struggled to deliver even satisfactory SATAII performance.........But........
The whole point of the smallish iSSD module being placed onboard is supposedly to improve performance of the Hard Drive (Glass Platter) installed for the OS......60% speed improvements claimed over the standard HD driven hardware configuration.........this sound very familiar to Marvell's new HyperDuo driven controller tagged 88SE9130.
Marvell Touts an 80% speed improvements with a combined SSD, and a standard glass plattered drive connected..........shunting/buffering the most commonly accessed data to the SSD while still utilizing the full drive size of the combined hardware installed........is there a 9130 chip sandwiched in here somewhere?
On top of all this ,this sounds dangerously close (infringement) to Seagate's "Momentus XT" Drive which carry's 4GB of fast NAND FLASH onboard to do just about the same thing!
Marvell have upped the ante, releasing a string of chips onto the market, 9120, 25/27/28/30 and 9172 to name just a few......... there filtering down right across all the board manufactures ..... even hard drives carry Marvell chips.
To get back to the subject........I suspect Gigabyte have done there homework in that like the Momentus XT, very little SSD storage is required to bump up performance substantially..........another point is why did they make it (iSSD) a removable module and not just integrate it into the motherboard ?
Upgrade-ability! ..... if there's a hardware problem, new modules can be shipped easily........if larger modules aid system performance in the near future......the design is a winner for upgrades.
Aussie Allan
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You are quite right I am sure Allan and it acts as a fast cache for the most commonly used bits of data. I can see the connector being fitted to all motherboards and it just being an upgrade to those who want to use it.