Have 2 M4 128gb Raid 0. Which motherboard for best speeds?

[bakercard]

Are 6.0gbps ports necessary?

Which motherboard will give the best performance from these drives?

Will I be able to tell the difference between 3 and 6 gbps ports?

 

[Lotheron]

Are 6.0gbps ports necessary?

For these drives, yes. They can do 500MB/s+ sequential reads by themselves and would be much faster RAID 0.

Which motherboard will give the best performance from these drives?

You will be hardpressed to find much difference between boards, just go SATA 6Gb/s with RAID support and you'll be fine.

Will I be able to tell the difference between 3 and 6 gbps ports?

With these drives, absolutely.

 

[Kenmitch]

Are 6.0gbps ports necessary?

Which motherboard will give the best performance from these drives?

Will I be able to tell the difference between 3 and 6 gbps ports?

You'll need SATA III ports for your drives forsure!

You already spent the money on the SSD's don't try to offset the cost by going cheap on a MB. You don't gotta spend the big bucks but on the other hand you get what you pay for. Just make sure the MB has all the options you'll need such as ports, expansion, etc.

Side Note: At least telling which CPU you wanna use it's gonna be hard to get some MB specific recs!

 

[jhansman]

FWIW, If you are thinking AMD, I just got the Asrock 870FX, which (according to their site and specs) *should* be forward compatible to BD. I have an X6 1090T in it now, and by boot drive is a single 64GB M4 on SATA III. Great mobo, plenty of OC potential, room, layout is intelligent, and it ran me $165 on sale. Asrock's 990FX Fatality and Extreme 4 boards are also popular these days, but will run you a bit more. Those two M4s in RAID 0 should fairly scream.

 

[LokutusofBorg]

Drives with the Marvell controller (Crucial, Intel 500) aren't the best choice for RAID setups. They delay their garbage collection which gives them more up-front speed and when TRIM is there to handle things during idle time they do fine. But when RAID prevents TRIM, then garbage collection happens when the controller decides (late, as I said) which means if you use the drives heavily you'll eventually see lower performance using them in RAID. Just FYI.