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Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 01:25:24 schrieb Paul Hartman: |
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> Hi, |
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> I obtained a Samsung 830 128GB SSD, it supports SATA3 interface, but |
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> haven't installed it yet. My motherboard has the Marvell 9128 SATA3 |
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> chipset. I read a lot of FUD about this chipset, but it is always |
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> exclusively from the perspective of Windows users complaining about |
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> Marvell drivers, lack of TRIM support in the driver, etc. (Official |
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> statement on the capability of the chip itself is covered by NDA, |
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> apparently...) The driver should be irrelevant in Linux since I'm just |
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> using ahci for everything, but limitations of the chipset or BIOS |
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> implementation itself... who knows? |
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> I understand the Marvell 9128 chip does not reach the full speed of |
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> the SATA3, but it should still be faster than the onboard SATA2 ports |
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not really |
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> even if it's not as fast as the drive's maximum speeds. Lack of TRIM |
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> would be bad, though, and any bugs causing disconnects or data |
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> corruption obviously would be unacceptable to me. |
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yeah |
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> Are any of you using this chipset in Linux with SSD and can tell me if |
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> it works properly for you and has working TRIM commands passed through |
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> to the SSD? |
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no, thank god I dodged that bullet. Everything but marvell should be fine. |
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