Hi, I obtained a Samsung 830 128GB SSD, it supports SATA3 interface, but haven't installed it yet. My motherboard has the Marvell 9128 SATA3 chipset. I read a lot of FUD about this chipset, but it is always exclusively from the perspective of Windows users complaining about Marvell drivers, lack of TRIM support in the driver, etc. (Official statement on the capability of the chip itself is covered by NDA, apparently...) The driver should be irrelevant in Linux since I'm just using ahci for everything, but limitations of the chipset or BIOS implementation itself... who knows?
I understand the Marvell 9128 chip does not reach the full speed of the SATA3, but it should still be faster than the onboard SATA2 ports even if it's not as fast as the drive's maximum speeds. Lack of TRIM would be bad, though, and any bugs causing disconnects or data corruption obviously would be unacceptable to me. Are any of you using this chipset in Linux with SSD and can tell me if it works properly for you and has working TRIM commands passed through to the SSD? Thanks
