X58A-GD65 for SATA III 6GB/s - MARVELL OR JMICRON?

MSI and Forum members,
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Currently, have my SSD and a Hitachi HDD on the 2 SATAIII ports
There is no Storage controllers listed in my Device Manager.
I guess it's defaulting to IDE mode despite settings in BIOS?
SSD is running good and at speeds advertised and boots.
HDD runs fine.
Was thinking if i should load a controller?
(i did before, and pretty much no noticeable difference)
If i load controller, which one should i load?
i've had instances of both on there and since have reloaded Windows 7 yet again.
Im not using RAID (obviously) on these 2 SATA ports at the moment,
but may try to in the future.
Welcome anyone's RAID experiences with either controller... as
it's more than my 0 ... just like my SATAII setting (hopefully will
be changed in the near future to 4xhdd RAID 5)
Thank you for your time.

Hi everyone...
THANKS A BUNCH For your replies...
learned a few things, but actually, some of this seem to conflict with what
i've read. so... now i got more Q's~!
Q1. How do i see if TRIM is working?
Q2. can i manually turn TRIM On/turn it Off ?
For SSD maintenance/preservation, every two weeks or so, i do
- full backup with win7,
- Clean All on my SSD drive
- just restore my SSD drive only from the backup
(This way, if TRIM isn't working/isn't working well/cant tell what does or does not work
only on Sundays and sometimes on Tuesdays, i still remove the garbage.)
Q3. Does this really work?
Quote from: Bas on 10-July-11, 09:35:25
AHCI is a bad setting for SSD, it makes it slower and it produces more commands on the BUS.
In fact the only thing AHCI is good for is hot-plugging, else don't use it if you don't need it.
- following two questions are in reference to this quote
Q4. How come people keep saying to move the SSD off the SATAIII ports onto the SATAII ports?
(maybe this is just myth/hype? or maybe that is solution only when the SATAIII ports are not
giving full performance?)
Q5. Does this AHCI "problem" also apply to regular HDD?
(I have a hot plug ready 3.5" drive bay for a 2.5" drive i can use at anytime so i set my SATAII ports to AHCI.)
Thanks AQUALAB for pointing out the Box and in conjunction with what Bas said about
the AHCI/IDE setting
Quote from: aqualab on 10-July-11, 01:11:12
from MSI :
- Supports one SATAII port by JMicron® JMB362 (SATA9)
Q6. So i should probably connect my Hot Swap to this SATA9 port instead of one of my
regular SATAII ports?
Q7. If i change my SATAII ports back to IDE ... will it break my RAID setup?
(this is not big deal at the moment. it was my boot drive for about 3 weeks, but right now,
im just running a few apps left on there after reloading win7 back onto my SSD but
im thinking about breaking it and setting up a bigger RAID5 and would like to have
at least all the BIOS part ready)
NOTE: if an admin wants to re-title my thread to "X58A-GD65 SATAIII-6GB/s: controllers/SSD/HDD questions" would be ok too
Thank y'all as always, i end up getting more answers here than out there in NeverNeverLand.

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