SSD slow speed

[Tez77]

Just got a new SSD Kingston 240 6gb i have the P6X58D-E motherboard from some help on here and other places found out that the marvel 6 gb ports are not full speed and get half of the advertised speeds of the drive.
If i was to add this product 4 Port SATA 3 (SATA 6Gb/s) Raid Card (0/1) the Highpoint Rocket 640L Lite will this help me get the true speed of the drive i also have some other drives i can run of this from reading up on this i have seen this is also marvel or will i be better of with a card that is intel please help.

 

[abdulhamid]

I would go for the intel option as they are faster and more reliable/stable. On my current motherboard there are intel and Asmedia SATA3 ports, I find that the intel ports are faster than the Asmedia ones.

 

[Buzz]

Just got a new SSD Kingston 240 6gb i have the P6X58D-E motherboard from some help on here and other places found out that the marvel 6 gb ports are not full speed and get half of the advertised speeds of the drive.
If i was to add this product 4 Port SATA 3 (SATA 6Gb/s) Raid Card (0/1) the Highpoint Rocket 640L Lite will this help me get the true speed of the drive i also have some other drives i can run of this from reading up on this i have seen this is also marvel or will i be better of with a card that is intel please help.

As far as I can see that product you asked about does also use the Marvel drivers,. and while it is 6gb for the price of it, I think I would sooner either stick with the 3gb downgrade performance of the SSD or get a new motherboard for about twice the price ish. I never found Marvel ports of any use. I disable them in the BIOS to boost boot up times. Plus that 640L will use up a pcie2 slot only leaving you with 2. So depending on your setup it could leave things tight.

 

[Tez77]

I see loads on the fourms about not bothering with the 6 gb ports and plugging the 6gb ssd stright into a 3gb and leaving the 6 gb with nothing in tryed it my self but i do have 6 hdds so i need to try find away around this not come acorss a intel pci card yet i ll keep looking i get from overclockers or scan normally thanks to u both for your input rep to u both.

 

[tom_gr7]

you can plug normal hard drives into a sata 3 port fine, i have done this and didnt notice any difference.

BUt the ssd, if you can get it into a sata 6 port, even if you have to move other drives around I would.

what spec have you got mate?

 

[Tez77]

COOLERMASTER HAF 912 PLUS MID TOWER GAMING CASE
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[Tez77]

Been reading loads on this i will never get the full speed of the drive due to the motherboard caps the speed on the marvel ports so was thinking of a pci card to fix this prob but not sure that will work