![]() ![]() The P7P55D-E Premium motherboard will retail for $299 while the U3S6 add-on card will be $29. I just hope I haven't made a mistake with the decision to wait. If it drags on and on, at least there is the option of an add on card that will convert one of the other ASUS X58 boards to USB 3 & SATA 6. ![]() The only unknown is when will the mobo arrive. I expect blazing speed from this platform, and can hardly wait for it. ![]() I will be running this with an unremarkable 64 GB Patriot SDD as the boot drive, until the new SATA 6 Gbps SSDs come out - which could take a awhile I imagine. I ordered a new system based on an Intel CORE i5 750 2.66GHZ CPU running on the Asus Xtreme Design P7P55D-E Premium w/8 GB DDR3 1333 Mhz ram two days ago, and have been monitoring the net for signs of this mobo to actually hit the shelves. it says here that if you load up the USB 3 with more than one device, they both really slow down, but my film lab's SATA 3G just keeps on truckin' when you daisy-chain them. USB 3 will be cheap, and SATA 6G will be not-so-cheap.Ībout 99 out of 100 moderately clued in techies could have guessed the outcome of this one. So, the USB 3 will be attractive to consumers, with big, impressive numbers written large on boxes in stores everywhere, and the SATA 6G will be attractive to content creators (high end video production, etc). On the other hand, benchmarks with Seagate's new Barracuda XT SATA 6G drive show little performance difference but a burst rate that is off the charts." When connected to a USB 3.0 port, the external hard drive was about 5 - 6x faster versus connecting over USB 2.0, with total throughput in excess of 130MB/sec. That is, once the SATA 6 motherboards become relatively common. So I'm very much looking forward to upcoming SSDs like the Vertex 2 that should be able to max out a SATA 6 link. Finally, while SSDs probably are inherently more reliable in the long run than hard disks, it's not a good idea to build a system that depends on 2-4 separate drives, a motherboard chipset, and potentially buggy drivers or else your data is hosed. Dedicated hardware RAID cards cost $300-$1000, making the cost rather steep for most users. However, there's a lot of problems with doing this : you have to fuss with software drivers, certain SSD features aren't supported very well (like Trim), and there are bottlenecks in motherboard RAID chipsets because spinning disks were never this quick. So bring on the new drives that can max out SATA 6! Right now, you can get comparable performance if you put two or four high end SSDs into a RAID 0 array. (the main cost driver of SSDs appears to be the cost of the flash chips themselves) In the long run, there isn't even much of a cost difference to make the same capacity SSD drive fast enough to max out SATA 6. It's relatively straightforward to add more parallel channels to an SSD drive and increase bandwidth. ![]()
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