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Best Chipset for data throughput (HD performance)

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willow2

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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