***Asus Rampage III Extreme Owners Thread***

[zinsco]

Sure, it is a limit. But I still get about 470mb/sec read off my two x25-m 80GB in raid0 on the 9218 chip, and write speed is not bottlenecked at all running at a solid 140mb/sec(saturation point of two x25-m 80gb's in raid0).

If you had them on the sata 2 intel chip, you would get the same if not better. Why use the Marvell if you don't get any performance boost over the intel and the intel chip is tried and true for a long time. Not just performance in speed but a better chip period.

Here's my two vertex 2's R0 on the intel: