Best Chipset for data throughput (HD performance)

[willow2]

I will be running 7+ SATA drives (2 of them optical), & am interested in the best HD performance. (For file transfers, multimedia and backups.) I'm wondering if the X58 chipset is better than P55 for this. Also, since I will have more than 6 drives, what's the best secondary chip, Marvell's SATA3 or one of the JMicron solutions?

This will not be a gaming machine, so no SLI/Crossfire.

 

[nenforcer]

Are you planning on RAIDing any of them for increased performance?

Also, I would keep the optical drives on something like the JMicron controller which typically only supports 2 drives anyways.

 

[willow2]

No RAID.

So the opticals should be on the secondary chips...be it JMicron or Marvell. I didn't realize that. Maybe I'll be ok with my current board, the Maximus III Formula. I just haven't seemed to read much good & alot of bad about JMicron's solutions. I thought I'd sell my board & choose one with the Marvell SATA3 option. Not because the SATA3 will hep, but just because the Marvel chips seem better than JMicron.

 

[AstroGuardian]

P55 and X58 have the same controller (ICH10R) and you can stick up to 6 drives it it. Other controllers can give you up to 2 more SATA ports with raid 0,1

 

[Arcanedeath]

I'd take Marvel over anything Jmicron and for sata 2.0 the ICH10R is as good as it gets.