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SATA card vs. On Board Sata

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tjcinnamon

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So I am looking at getting the GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L (energy saver) motherboard for my new build. While obsessing over the configuration of the build I came across the GC-RAMDISK which is a DDR-SSD (unfortunatly only a 4GB limit).

By researching this device I found people were getting much higher transfer rates by using a quality SATA card vs. their on board MB SATA. I am not sure what motherboards they were using but the cards worked better in most cases.

Does anyone believe a SATA card works better than an onboard connection? If so, would a card be better for this particular motherboard?

Thanks,
JOe K.
 
Not sure about the performance, but the card would be better for portability. You can simply transfer your drives and card to a diff system when needed (if needed), and not have to worry about backing up and recreating the RAID (since the controllers may be different).

Just a note about something I had to deal with recently...
 
If someone is getting greater performance from an add-in card than from the on-board controller, its probably due to whatever chip the card is using being faster than the one on their motherboard. Just the fact that its on a card should make no difference at all.
 
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