Booting from SATA at 6.0 GBs...

[nitehawk_92]

Can anyone recommend a middle of the road (around $200) Intel based motherboard (LGA 1366) that will boot from an SSD at 6.0GBs. I guess there are issues with Marvell controllers that only allow SSD's to boot at 3.0GBs, or so I am told. I have a SATA 3.0 60GB drive and want to be able to boot the system from the drive at 6 GBs. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Tom's rocks!!!!

 

[nikorr]

Can anyone recommend a middle of the road (around $200) Intel based motherboard (LGA 1366) that will boot from an SSD at 6.0GBs. I guess there are issues with Marvell controllers that only allow SSD's to boot at 3.0GBs, or so I am told. I have a SATA 3.0 60GB drive and want to be able to boot the system from the drive at 6 GBs. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Tom's rocks!!!!

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[nitehawk_92]

I called ASUS last night and they said the Sabertooth motherboard will not boot on an SSD at 6.0GBs. The Marvell controller will still boot the drive but only at SATA 2.0, 3.0 GB's not at 6.0GB's.

 

[nikorr]

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