New 6Gb/s SSD wish, but no 6GB/s controller on motherboard.

[gel214th]

Hey all.

I have a system with an Asus P75P55-D motherboard, an Intel X-25m 80GB Boot drive and a Western Digital Caviar Black 1.0TB 32MB Cache hard disk drive.

The 1TB has been filling awfully quickly lately, and I've been having to clear it out. Now mind you when I do some house cleaning on downloaded Direct2Drive game installs (that just sit there) and uninstalling older, unused games I can usually get a whopping 100GB free.

I want some more storage in the system, especially for actually running games.

On the 80GB all I can store is Program files and the OS. Office, Windows 7, and the other little programs I run and the drive just has about 10GB free.

I'm looking at 512GB SSD drives. 256GB for the smallest as a drive to run programs (games) from.

However, the motherboard does not have a 6GB/s controller on it.

Do you all recommend purchasing a third party 6GB/s controller?

If so which one?

Would it make an enormous difference? Would it introduce any compatibility issues say with using drives connected to it as Boot drives etc. ?

 

[geofelt]

Don't worry.
The stock 3gb sata will be fine. You might be able to tell the difference with a synthetic benchmark, but not in actual use.
Benchmarks stress the ssd with high queue lengths and unrealistic demands.
I would not bother with a 6gb pci-e controller. That can only detract from your graphics pci-e performance.

 

[gel214th]

Hi , Well it has been a while and no other answers.
So I assume Geofelt has got it right with his

Marking it as best answer and I'll base my SSD purchasing decision this Christmas on reliability, speed and other factors rather than whether the drive is 6GB/s or 3GB/s

 

[gel214th]

Best answer selected by gel214th.