Marvell 9128 Sata 3 controller with an SSD? Waste of money?

[SMutty]

I have an asus Rampage III Formula with an i7 950...about a year old now, was going to upgrade to an SSD, but i'm worried about all the negative things i've read on the marvell sata 3 controller, which is on my board. Getting an expensive Sata 3 SSD and using it on a board with crap Sata 3 support just seems like a waste.

Anyone else in the same situation or have the marvell drivers improved performance recently?

 

[Ms. DICKINSON]

The write speed is bad. My Patriot Pyro is clocking a little under 250Mb/s while read is above 400. I'll just donate my rig to my nephew and get a non-Marvell mobo.
Current setup: ga-p55a-ud3, i7 870

 

[Arcanedeath]

The Marvel 912X chips are junk, plain and simple for the most part you would be better off just sticking on an ICH 10R port and living w/ the cap in read speeds to get better writes.

 

[Skypix7]

The Marvel 912X chips are junk, plain and simple for the most part you would be better off just sticking on an ICH 10R port and living w/ the cap in read speeds to get better writes.

Hi, I've had big problems with two SSD connected to Marvell SATA 3 ports on my just-finished Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 build.

First, what's an ICH 10R port?

With the Marvells in use, I've had constant trips to BSOD Land. Disconnected both of the SSDs and booted up 45 minutes ago. So far not a single crash. I have two other SSDs (Corsair Force GT 240GBs) connected to the INtel ports: they're solid, ATTO benchmark shows 524K/559K max write/read, right up to spec.

But I coudn't even ATTO the drives hooked up to the Marvells: system crashed instantly.

Are there any workarounds? I've got four SATA 2 ports, two are hooked up to the DVD burners which leaves me two for the remaining SSDs, plus two E-SATA. I can use the remaining drives for data storage I guess, but was wondering if there's something else I can do to make the Marvells work, maybe a setting in bios is off or something.

Also, I've got the 3x version of bios for that board, not the latest 4x version, but reluctant to flash bios if I don't have to. Could this be a bios issue?

Thanks.