Marvell vs Intel for SSD

[Cuzzin Chizzy]

I have an ASUS Rampage iii Formula motherboard

Will running an SSD on Intel ports offer faster boot and load times?

 

[popatim]

Over the Marvell 9128, yes but you will not see full speed if you are getting one of the 450MB/s drives. They seem to top out at 240-260. Its the random 4k and speed at queue depths that you will really see the increase - like when windows loads. 🙂

 

[mad-max79]

Like popatim says, most important are IOPS, which are usually always below SATA 3 Gb/s throughput. Just use Intel controller and AHCI and you are fine.

 

[Cuzzin Chizzy]

Over the Marvell 9128, yes but you will not see full speed if you are getting one of the 450MB/s drives. They seem to top out at 240-260. Its the random 4k and speed at queue depths that you will really see the increase - like when windows loads. 🙂

Like popatim says, most important are IOPS, which are usually always below SATA 3 Gb/s throughput. Just use Intel controller and AHCI and you are fine.

If I don't use the Marvell ports for my SSD's then can I use them for.. say a BluRay drive if I need to in the future?

It's just now I have 3 HDDs, 2 SDDs, and 1 CD/DVD drive. The 3 hard drives and CD/DVD drive are on my Sata 2 ports and the 2 SSDs are on my Sata 3 ports. If I move the SSDs over to the Intel (Sata 2) ports, I will have no ports left for future expansion.

What advantage then, if any, does Marvell have over Intel? I saw a few charts online that show marvell's read times surpassing those of the intel.

 

[popatim]

The marvel ports support Port mulitiplier I beleive whereas the Intel driver does not.

The marvels work fine with optical drives from my experience and I've setup many pc's like that.