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Hi,

I have gigabyte z77x ud5h motherboard. I have windows 7 64 bit Home premium I have 16 gig of Memory.I have intel core i7 3770 Processor 3rd gen.3.40 ghz. My question is? Is intel's sata better than the marvell sata 6g controller. In terms of speed or just in general? I have the intel 7 series c216 chipset sata controller. Now I also have the marvell sata 6g controller. I have 2 entries in my device manager. should I disable the drivers for the marvel controllers and just stick with the intell sata drivers. Or just leave well enough alone? I mean if one is faster than the other. And I don't need the marvel controllers maybe I should just get rid of them what do you think. I'm plugged into intel on my motherboard. Everything works fine right now. but further down the line I don't want to start having file corruption issues or anything for that matter.

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Early chipsets did not have enough SATA paths and lanes for many hard drives and optical drives. TO overcome that Intel and other vendors added a Marvel SATA chip on the motherboard to provide additional ports.

In motherboard that I've seem with the Marvel chip on it, the ports are color-differentiated to tell which ones are 6GB/s vs 3Gb/s as well as which ones are on the Marvel controller and which ones are native to the chipset controller.

I think you alos can only define a RAID array over one or the other, not both.

Other than that you need not have concerns or issues. the two controllers are complementary and they do not interfere with one another in the way you are concerned about.
 
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I was also wondering if there are firmware updates for my intel sata controllers or maybe My chipset? Or the marvell sata 6g controllers? I hear an ssd drive performs better with newer firmware. And could you maybe send me the link to the site to get them or give me instructions?

Appreciate it.

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