Do all boards require using RAID to get 6gb/S?

[Yankee6]

I was looking into buying a GIGABYTE GA-880GA-UD3H, but saw someone in a review said you must use raid in order to get 6Gb/sec.  I dont plan on using RAID and wanted to know if this was true of this board and of ALL boards?  If this is the case then I dont need to bother buying a board with anything faster than 3 Gb/s.  Thanks.

[Aussie Allan]

Yankee6

 Have a look at this thread, 4th post down I think,....might answer the question for you somewhat.....

  http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,5229.msg44126.html#msg44126

 Aussie Allan

[Dark Mantis]

Hi
There are quite a few motherboards around now that will support SATA3 6GBs out of the box. I am fairly sure that this is one of them. It was only the first boards that used the Marvell 9128 controller that were supposed to support that spec but didn't.

[Yankee6]

Yes this board does support 6Gb/S, but like I said someone said it ONLY works with RAID.  Thats why I want to know if this is true then I could just go for less expensive board without that capability instead.

[Aussie Allan]

 I don't get all this hype about the new Sata 6GB/s. ... The conversion from gigabit to megabytes is roughly 3 Gb/s = 375 MB/s.

 So 6Gb/s = 700 MB/s......I know of none, non-raided Sata drive, that would come close to this figure


   This was a snip i just pulled off a page on the net.......the shall we say standard Sata II platter drive, spinning at 7200 rpm will net you about 65 to 90 Mb/s depending on outer edge or inner edge.........from what I'm seeing ATM ... 6gb/s mechanical drives max out at about 150mb/s tops!.....so to get to the 700Mb/s saturation point......about 5 to 6 drives (raided).........SSD a little different but still short.

 My thought for what I THINK you want is have a moderate sized SSD for your operating system and put all your programs on a cheaper,  conventional HDD.....even with a quickish SSD you'll be pressed to saturate the SataII except in a burst....for real world, you wont notice the difference

 Aussie Allan

[autotech]

there is a small difference .

Sequential Access -  Read 355MB/sec (SATA 6Gb/s)
                                      265MB/sec (SATA 3Gb/s)
Sequential Access - Write 75MB/sec (SATA 6Gb/s)
                                     75MB/sec (SATA 3Gb/s)

As you see the read is about 1/3  faster while the write is about the same. I use raid 0 on 2 500 gig  7200rpm drives and it is close but not as good as a ssd but for the price raid 0 suits me fine.