Wich would be a better controller card for ssd

[WINTERLORD]

hi, am wondering witch of these would be a better controller card? im not sure but i think high point is a respected name for controller cards, however the highpoint card came out in 2009 it looks like and the sybra card came out in august 2011

also if you have a suggestion or experience on a controller card that aint to expinsive please let me know

sybra card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124045

highpoint card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=16-115-072&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Keywords=%28keywords%29&Page=10

 

[inzone]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815318001

I am currently using this one from Biostar and I can say that it is working just fine , I needed to add some sata3 ports and I am right now using it for my boot drive. It comes with a driver disc.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816104026

You also have this one.

 

[WINTERLORD]

ok yea i was looking at the biostar. wish i could find one affordable with a pcie x4 that way down the road i could raid 2 ssd's together. still looking but dont see any x4 cards but thats ok will prolly have a new motherboard by the time i get a second ssd year or so.

anyways i just stumbled across this card here its affordable and has a different chipset. the biostar has a as media chipset and this one below has a Marvell 9128 chipset any ideas to wich might be a better card/chipset?

http://www.eforcity.com/psybiocon016.html

i dont really care about raid or anything since that is far down the road.

 

[inzone]

I prefer the Asmedia over the Marvell , have had a lot of problems with the Marvell controller and that's part of the reason for the Biostar card.
When getting a new motherboard you want to make sure you get one with a minimum 6 sata3 ports that way there will be at least two that are controlled by the Intel chip.

 

[WINTERLORD]

Best answer selected by winterlord.

 

[wpcoe]

Also, be aware that both of those cards are PCIe2 x1, which provides a maximum 500MB/s, and when you subtract some overheard, will get less than that. You'll still get a little better speed than a motherboard SATA-2 connector, but not the full advertised, often 500+, speeds of a SATA-3 SSD.

I think the least expensive PCIe add-in card with more than an x1 lane was about $100 when I was researching about a month ago.

 

[Maziar]

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