Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 01:25:24 schrieb Paul Hartman: > 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
not really > 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. yeah > > 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? no, thank god I dodged that bullet. Everything but marvell should be fine. -- #163933
