I am planning to upgrade my system to a Core i7 950 with an X58 (or similar?) motherboard - have been looking at Asus Sabertooth X58 and the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R.
I also was hoping to use a 120GB SATA III 6Gb/s SSD as my primary boot drive, adding my older 500GB SATA II drive for data and some program installs. For example: the OCZ SLD3-25SAT3 looks nice: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=557375&RSort=4&csid=ITD&body=#ReviewStart
However, I have been reading about people having problems with the Marvell 9128 Controller for SATA III on these boards (at least, on the Asus, and I assume there could be similar problems on the Gigabyte). There is talk of necessary firmware updates, etc. to avoid BSODs.
Is anybody aware of a good SSD like the above that is working well in an X58 class mobo as a boot drive? Hopefully, plug and play...?
I also was hoping to use a 120GB SATA III 6Gb/s SSD as my primary boot drive, adding my older 500GB SATA II drive for data and some program installs. For example: the OCZ SLD3-25SAT3 looks nice: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=557375&RSort=4&csid=ITD&body=#ReviewStart
However, I have been reading about people having problems with the Marvell 9128 Controller for SATA III on these boards (at least, on the Asus, and I assume there could be similar problems on the Gigabyte). There is talk of necessary firmware updates, etc. to avoid BSODs.
Is anybody aware of a good SSD like the above that is working well in an X58 class mobo as a boot drive? Hopefully, plug and play...?