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  1. #1
    blax n gunz
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    Where are the SATA 6Gb ready motherboards?

    From February:

    http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/..._motherboard/2

    When buying your new motherboard there is no performance reason we can point to that suggests you should select a motherboard with SATA 6Gb/s. In fact, if you are running a RAID 0 setup, you are actually better off going with Intel's ICH10R solution. I see a lot of tech editors complaining about Intel's lack of currently having a SATA 6Gb/s controller on the market right now, and I have to ask why that is. The bottom line is that Intel knows there is no advantage to currently bringing the product to market until it has its SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Disk drives for sale. From all the data, that makes perfect sense to us here at HardOCP.
    From April:

    http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...gb,2583-8.html

    Existing mainstream chipsets from do not provide sufficient PCI Express bandwidth for USB 3.0 or SATA 6Gb/s controllers because, while PCH-based PCI Express lanes supposedly offer a second-gen interface, they run at first-gen transfer rates (250 MB/s instead of 500 MB/s). Motherboard manufacturers can work around this by routing add-on components through PCIe switching logic or by physically wiring these controllers to PCI Express 2.0 lanes, which typically drive your graphics cards. AMD chipsets (starting with the 700-series) are fully PCI Express 2.0-compliant and consequently don’t exhibit such a limitation.
    tl;dr: boards currently make compromises on where to push all this disk I/O, which can degrade performance to the point where it's not worth it...for now.

    Except now it's July, so where are the boards that don't bottleneck disk I/O in the system bus? I'm looking to replace my motherboard this year and this question lingers since I edit video on my computer and fast disk I/O is crazy nice when you're doing that. How much longer do I have to wait before it's as simple as 'buy the board, buy the disk, done?'

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    CoP Dynamis
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    This is a gimmick to get people to buy 6.0GB/s motherboards. No hard drive has even maxed out the 3.0GB/s and probably not even the 1.5GB/s mark. Now when it comes to SSD you would just match it's top speed to whichever of these 3 standards you need and get that motherboard. I believe SSDs have passed the 1.5, not sure about 3.0/6.0 you'd have to google it.

    Max Write Transfer (not sure if any SSDs are on that page)

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    There's an SSD that can break 3.0Gb/s, but just barely. Review of it here

    Also this seems a better chart than the one above, has more up-to-date drives and isn't in a weird order.

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    Formerly known as Arcknight.
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    I have a Crucial C300 with an ASUS P6X58D-E, a SATA6 mobo. Not much I can say about it since it's my first SSD but I boot into Win7 64 in about 9 seconds.

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    I use a Corsair X32 and it takes me 45sec from pressing power button to getting to my desktop.

    Post takes up 30sec, from windows logo to desktop (logging in is normally instant or ~2sec) takes 15sec. POST never took this long before, but it increased since setting RAID (added to that is the RAID screen itself, but only up for ~5 sec).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arcknight View Post
    I have a Crucial C300 with an ASUS P6X58D-E, a SATA6 mobo. Not much I can say about it since it's my first SSD but I boot into Win7 64 in about 9 seconds.
    Damn you, mine takes almost 18 secs..... TOO SLOW!!!!!!

    450 reads and 250 writes ..... fuck me <3 <3 <3

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    Formerly known as Arcknight.
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    Honestly I just estimated but I restarted and counted 12 seconds. The Win7 logo doesn't even fully animate before it's finished loading.

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    Sad thing, i didn't even know i had an SSD when i bought my laptop (Wife got it as a present while i was at work). 1st time it booted i just thought it was a badass laptop. After a month it took me about 2 hours to figure out why i couldn't defrag my HD.

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    SATA 3.0 and USB 3.0 boards have been on the market for months..