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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: teknology9 on September 30, 2011, 06:22:33 pm

Title: Add on SATA 3 Card for GA-790FXTA-UD5
Post by: teknology9 on September 30, 2011, 06:22:33 pm

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

Title: Re: Add on SATA 3 Card for GA-790FXTA-UD5
Post by: Dark Mantis on September 30, 2011, 07:52:08 pm

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.

Title: Re: Add on SATA 3 Card for GA-790FXTA-UD5
Post by: teknology9 on September 30, 2011, 07:55:49 pm

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

Title: Re: Add on SATA 3 Card for GA-790FXTA-UD5
Post by: Dark Mantis on September 30, 2011, 07:58:26 pm

Do they have a forum you could ask on ?

Title: Re: Add on SATA 3 Card for GA-790FXTA-UD5
Post by: teknology9 on September 30, 2011, 07:59:52 pm

They being Highpoint or Lindy?

No, it looks like neither have a forum.

Title: Re: Add on SATA 3 Card for GA-790FXTA-UD5
Post by: Dark Mantis on September 30, 2011, 08:04:40 pm

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

Title: Re: Add on SATA 3 Card for GA-790FXTA-UD5
Post by: teknology9 on September 30, 2011, 08:11:09 pm

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.

Title: Re: Add on SATA 3 Card for GA-790FXTA-UD5
Post by: Dark Mantis on September 30, 2011, 09:02:00 pm

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

Title: Re: Add on SATA 3 Card for GA-790FXTA-UD5
Post by: teknology9 on October 01, 2011, 09:37:52 am

This is the one

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

Title: Re: Add on SATA 3 Card for GA-790FXTA-UD5
Post by: Dark Mantis on October 01, 2011, 06:18:13 pm

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.

Title: Re: Add on SATA 3 Card for GA-790FXTA-UD5
Post by: teknology9 on October 01, 2011, 06:29:17 pm

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

Teknology9

Title: Re: Add on SATA 3 Card for GA-790FXTA-UD5
Post by: Dark Mantis on October 01, 2011, 06:38:09 pm

Makes more sense if you ask me!  8)

Title: Re: Add on SATA 3 Card for GA-790FXTA-UD5
Post by: teknology9 on October 02, 2011, 08:44:21 am

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

Title: Re: Add on SATA 3 Card for GA-790FXTA-UD5
Post by: Dark Mantis on October 02, 2011, 10:15:30 am

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.

Title: Re: Add on SATA 3 Card for GA-790FXTA-UD5
Post by: teknology9 on October 02, 2011, 01:19:27 pm

   Update

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