SATA 6gb on Sabertooth x58

[ShortAlieN]

OK, so i tried to hook up two hard drives to the SATA 6gb on the motherboard and run them in RAID 0. Ugh, this sucked. Seemed slower and twitchy. Set the RAID 0 onto the Intel chip set and works fine. I have heard that the Marvell controller is kind of .... not good. Is there anything I can do to make them work faster? I have tried all the drivers and utilities from ASUS, with no help.

If I get a SATA III SSD will it be a waste of my money or would it work, how about a SATA II SSD? I want to set up a RAID 5 on this board, but I need the 6gb connections for the OS drives so I can hook up all the hard drives to the other SATA connections. I have also read reports of people not being able to use the OCZ Revo drive on these 6gb connections as well. Not sure on the specifics of that

 

[S_I_N]

what do ya mean by seems slower and twitchy??? I'm not overly familiar with the different controllers and such but I'll assist if I can. I have seen reviews saying that sataIII isnt all taht much better than sataII but I havent confirmed this myself as of yet.

 

[thestepster]

to be honest with u mate if your going to be running something like raid 5 get a raid card and forget about running it off the mobo, plus isnt the revo drive a pci-e ssd?

 

[S_I_N]

yeah I thought so as well and just checked to confirm it the revo and revo x2 are both pci-e so they will have their own controller onboard.

 

[GBcf]

Which hdd's do you have? Are they made for sata 6gb? If not, you will not have any profit from 6gb sata.

Also it could be you set some value wrong in the bios while configuring raid 0..?

I have two WD caviar Black 6gb hdd's in raid 0 on the marvell chip and its working great together

Cheers

 

[Bocephus]

Lol...I thought this was about Power color 6970 GPU. Did I miss something in the original post?

 

[S_I_N]

Lol...I thought this was about Power color 6970 GPU. Did I miss something in the original post?

naw mate I dont think so I saw these comments under that review as well. Not sure what got buggered up I even went and checked that I didnt comment in wrong thread myself lmao

 

[ShortAlieN]

By slower and twitchy I mean that compared to the Intel controller on the 3gb connections, the data is transferred at good constant speeds. The Marvell controller seems slower and by twitchy I mean it has some speed bumps that are fast, but in between those bumps in speed its really really slow. Over all the performance is crap.

I'm not looking for a great performance boost here for the raid 5. I just want it for a reliable storage area and the onboard controller is sufficient enough to handle that. Yes I know that a card would be better, but I'm on a budget here and a separate card just doesn't fit into that budget. After watching Tom's review on the Sabertooth board I asked him if this was workable, and he said that I should not have any problems with this set up, and I'm inclined to take his advice.

And the HDD's I'm using are some WD 500gb caviar blue. yes they are only 3gb drives, but I'm not looking to benefit from the 6gb connections at this time. I just need the connections so I can have my RAID array on the Intel controller. And as far as I can tell the BIOS was set up proper. The one thing that I noticed on the Marvell controller the stripe size is limited to 64kb but the Intel has a stripe size of 128kb.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Marvel raid is crap end of.

 

[ShortAlieN]

That is pretty much what I am getting from it, thank you Tom. Would a SSD run well on the Marvell controller? not in raid of course.

 

[ShortAlieN]

anyone?