Marvell Unveils New SSD 6Gb/s SATA Controller
Marvell announced mass market availability of its new 88SS9187 SATA controller that will find its way into SSDs for ultrabooks.
The controller comes with a SATA 6Gb (Rev 3.1) interface and supports NAND flash data transfer rates of up to 200 MB/s per channel (up to eight channels are supported). Marvell boasts a sequential read performance of around 500MB/s even at dirty drive conditions.
According to the manufacturer, the device also features "groundbreaking correction capability" based on an ECC engine with Adaptive Read and Write Scheme, as well as on-chip RAID support. 88SS9187 includes a DDR3 DRAM interface that can carry up to 1 GB of memory.
Marvell said it is targeting both enterprise and mobile devices with the controller and claims that the 88SS9187 features the lowest active and stand-by power consumption rates of any SATA 6Gb controller available at this time.
If there's support for TRIM on a RAID array, I'm in.
I still wish a manufacturer would slap on 2-4GB of DRAM cache- though I'd still love to see the benchmarks of a drive with 1GB DRAM and this controller.
/much hate for Marvell due to multiple product failures
The only thing more shoddy than the controllers themselves are their drivers, which tend to conflict with others like a drunken sailor with Asperger's at a high society party.
sandforce is the one known for lockups and system crashes
The DDR3 interface has me very interested in this chip.
Shill alert!
Marvell considers a product mature when the item is no longer manufactured by any other vendor.
yeah right, I have no ties to the company.
I own a few crucial m4's and ocz vertex 3.
But if you read every review on the internet, they say the marvell controller is much more reliable than the sandforce controller.
See Intel 520 SSD, based on Sandforce SF-2281 controller (tweaked by Intel) and is hands down the most reliable consumer SSD on the market today.
The OCZ Vertex 3 is also a very good drive lol...
I'm not saying the Crucial m4 isn't good, I would have bought that if it was cheaper than the OCZ Vertex 3 when I got it on special
It's not the SSD that's causing the lockups and BSOD's, it's the damn controller on the motherboard. Yeah there was a bad batch of Sandforce 2281's I believe that had issues, which were eventually fixed with a firmware update (at the expense of performance, but not a huge drop) but other than that, SSD's are pretty rock solid. I'm on my 3rd build with SSD's as my boot drive, the last two in a raid array, and they are awesome. My system goes from POST to login in 16 seconds, faster if I disable the other drives, and I couldn't be happier. The only part of my latest build that's given me problems is my backup array, that's run through that GD Marvell controller. Marvell is junk, plain and simple.