Want to buy a SATA 3 SSD soon as a boot drive as I work with large files ( 1.8GB+ ). Need a recommendation for a SATA III PCI Express Controller Card. My Motherboard only supports Sata 2 as standard. I know Bit-Tech did a write up a while ago and had a recommend card but unfortunately i can't find the article. Although, i may be out of date now. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Generally there is not too much gain from doing this. I am guessing you are on a X58 set up? Most people just stick em on the Sata 2 port and are happy enough, you wont know any difference unless benchmarking.
I have recently added an Asmedia card to mine and did a quick analysis with crystaldiskmark. This was the result running through the sata 2 controller I bought the Asmedia card for a fiver off the marketplace but again as others have said I don't really think that I have noticed a great deal of difference with the sata 3 controller.
Yeah, I'd just stick with Sata 2 tbh as you'll rarely, if ever, notice the difference between that and Sata 3 in the real world.
I used one of these when i was on x58 it was the recommended card at the time i think. No need for it now so will be sticking it on the marketplace. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/1609...ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=102
I use sata6gbps ssd on my old P55/750 set up and it's just fine. Using andreinuk post to illustrate the example, look at the small differences in the 4K results... they are not that dramatic and the 4K is what matters most on SSD. In real world a fast sequential read doesn't really do much for you in most scenarios. If I didn't have an ssd already, I would go for one of the msata to pci-e cards. There are a few msata that have just as good performance and similar price to 2.5" such as mushkin Atlas. With pci-e/msata you won't have any more cable mess. This is also for the most part cheaper than proper pci-e ssd, and almost as good. Get msata to pci-e that has the Marvell hyperduo controller since they are one of few that support trim and an additional sata6GBPS port. If you want to, can set up hyperduo caching with a large hdd. Most add on sata 6gbps cards still don't support trim so you need to really watch it if you're going to use them with ssd.
