Intel PCH Z75 Chipset onboard vs Vantec UGT-ST644R

[pekv2]

Not bad. Got my raid controller today. Intel PCH Z75 Chipset onboard vs Vantec UGT-ST644R Marvell 88SE9230-NNA2, Benchmarked with a 60gig vertex2 SSD.

Tomorrow I will be doing a raid0 config with some 5400RPM HDD's and compare the two chipsets, obv. the intel wins but we'll see, I'll post up here when I do. I will be using the raid card when My board slots are filled within a couple months ect. Oh yea, also new intel drivers makes one of my backup HHD's unusable so the raid card comes in handy for cold storage offline backup . Shame on you intel.

[pekv2]

I did the test raid0 on two 5400 RPM drives, and just like a review I found few hours ago, same as what the review said, Marvell's 15-18 MB/s slower than intel's chipset.

Also what I noticed, over time, intel's drivers got better at speed as the versions got newer, Marvells driver dates back to 2012, intel's is 2/26/2014.

I bet any money if Marvell's worked on their drivers like intel, Marvell's chipset 88SE9230-NNA2 would be hella faster than it is now.

I contacted Marvell as well see if they will/can update the drivers.

2012 is kinda ridiculous, unless the chipset is at it's peak but it seems like intel maybe paid marvell to keep their chipset just right below intel's chipset ratio. Imho.

[pekv2]

HyperDuo is pretty damn nice and fast!

Took my 60g ssd, turned it into 182 gigs using an old 1.5 GB/s maxtor HDD with 25 gigs to spare unallocated. It's something like 152.58+55.5, It's like one big SSD. Cool technology.

[MysteryMiner]

Something to do with PCI-E lanes or different controller performance?

But the difference is very small. For the price and space of dedicated RAID card get better CPU, RAM or Video and use on-board RAID. Unless dedicated card provides additional modes or features.

[pekv2]

Something to do with PCI-E lanes or different controller performance?

But the difference is very small. For the price and space of dedicated RAID card get better CPU, RAM or Video and use on-board RAID. Unless dedicated card provides additional modes or features.

See, the night I ordered it was the night I got my intel raid going, which I was working on for days, turned out I had to clear cmos and default my UEFI LOL. By then, I was like screw it, I ain't gonna cancel the order, well, it come too where I did need it for my old maxtor as per explained above "new intel drivers made the drive obsolete", so it worked out. And even now I am using hyperduo which is pretty badass for 44 bucks. ssd+hhd= best performance=faster than ssd alone and faster than hdd alone . And then I have my raid0 storage on the intel with two 5400 RPM, with everything enabled, the raid card, the intel raid utility, windows boots up as like before 10 seconds=fast.

Man, windows7 just rules imho.

All new tech is just crazy...

PC come from a long ways, and it just blows my mind.

[pekv2]

A better explanation.

11 intel driver made system boot @ 30 seconds with raid0 storage hooked up, and the maxtor worked just fine on intel 11 drivers. 13, fixed something where windows boots @ 10 seconds vs the 30 seconds but made my maxtor obsolete, could not initialize incorrrect funtion blah. So it wa sbette to use the intelrst13 drivers. I think u got the story .

[lewisg]

The Z75 is a nearly identical sibling to the Z77 but better than Vantec UGT-ST644R.