Poor SSD transfer on ASROCK 980DE3/U3S3

[Conderus]

Hello. ( it's me )

I have a problem with my board, it is ASROCK 980DE3/U3S3 with integrated 2 x SATA III controller and recently I bought BX100 SSD, but the transfers form benchmark are worse than from the tests on the web. Today I have noticed that onboard Asmedia ASM1061 isn't native controller and it is under PCIe 2.0 x1 line and limited to 500MB/s ,and this is reason of my problem.

I can buy cheap ASRock 970 Extreme3 with 6 x SATA III with also RAID support, and I assume that this is full SATA III controller (theoretically real up to 6 Ggps without these PCIe lines limitations) ? ,also with TRIM RAID 0 support to establish raid from SSDs discs ?

I can't verify that. Sorry for my EN. Regards.

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hello from the other side (he-he-he).

What were the results from the benchmark test you've performed? What size is the SSD?

Basically if this is something that's preventing the SSD to reach its full potential, the new mobo should fix that. On the other hand, from what I was able to find about that model, the sequential read speed is up to 535MB/s and the write is lower than 500MB/s so you shouldn't be bottlenecked that much if you have a 500MB/s cap.
You should also check if the drive has firmware updates available and check for driver updates for your motherboard as well.

As for the other part, you should definitely enable TRIM. It's a really important OS service for every SSD. It helps it achieve optimum performance throughout the SSD's entire life. I don't think you need to go with a RAID 0 for SSDs as the boost does not justify the lower redundancy in my opinion. If you have a second SSD I'd advise you to use it separately (in a non-RAID configuration, as a secondary storage drive)

Hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Boogieman_WD