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[Razzee]

Hi!

 

I will try to brief my situation as efficiently as possible.

 

I currently have two sets of SSDs installed on my PC:

 

WD Green 240 GB X2 (Raid 0 through the native ports, Intel controller)

Goldenfir SU650 512 GB + ACOS 512 GB (connected to both Marvell 6 Gb/s ports)

 

The speeds of both system SSDs are great, can't really complain.

 

 

Before installing the ACOS SSD, I was having nominal speeds for the Goldenfir SU650 alone (about 375 MB/s, which is the limit of Marvell ports).

 

I tried setting both up as Raid 0 through the controller itself on BIOS, but having both Intel and Marvell controllers set to Raid mode trigger up this message:

 

 

This message is quite odd, since it's even poorly written.

 

Can I just ignore it and enable Raid 0 anyway? I'm afraid of enabling both and the ROM having no space, deleting my existing Raid 0. I don't want to install Windows over again.

 

The speeds by setting up a Raid 0 (striped volume) on Windows 10 are lower than the Goldenfir SU650 alone:

 

 

 

This got a bit long, but basically, can I ignore the message displayed by the BIOS or will it lose my current Raid 0 array?

 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 Rev. 1.0

 

For some reason I cannot access Gigabyte's forums, where most posts related to my issue are probably published:

 

[Razzee]

Should I have created this thread on the "Storage Devices" section instead?

[Razzee]

In case anyone will have the same issue as me in the future, I managed to "solve" it (not really) by connecting both SSDs to the native Intel SATA2 ports.

 

Conclusion:

 

1. Enabling both Intel controller Raid mode and Marvell controller Raid mode did not overload the motherboard BIOS ROM.

 

However, enabling Marvell 88SE9172's Raid 0 mode did not improve speeds compared to a Raid 0 set up by Windows 10.

 

2. Both Marvell 88SE9172's SATA3 ports are indeed slightly better than a Intel SATA2 port (although not a SATA3 port).

 

However, connecting two SSDs to both ports and using both at the same time is no good. The ports probably share the same I/O within the MB.

 

I know that my motherboard (Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 Rev. 1.0) is quite old by today's standards, and by the time it was released probably there weren't many high speed SSDs around. Even connecting both SSDs to the SATA2 ports did not keep the speeds stuck at 600 MB/s (which I expected), so the bottleneck is within the motherboard's chipset or processor itself.

 

Marvell (ACOS 512 GB + Goldenfir SU650 512 GB):

https://imgur.com/CdyIwWF

 

Intel SATA2 (ACOS 512 GB + Goldenfir SU650 512 GB):
https://imgur.com/2UeDCZq

 

Intel SATA3 (WD Green 240 GB X2):
https://imgur.com/Z1k3uiA

 

Intel SATA2 (ACOS 512 GB + Goldenfir SU650 512 GB):
https://imgur.com/xMa73LH