ASMedia® ASM 1061 chipset

[Igor]

Finally i got my ASMedia Pci-E Sata 6Gb/s Card and this is the best spent 20$(with shipping)in my whole life.Men they even give me cable.
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I was like a child that got new toy.I hope that this card will be better then Marvell on board chip,but this is crazy.I defended Marvell,but now i see that i was wrong,it must be better results true Pci-e line.
If you want to buy this controller be careful,there is same controller with Marvell chip,the only differences are in retail numbers.This is with ASMedia 1061 controller:
Amazon.com: IO Crest 2 Port SATA III PCI-Express x1 Card (SY-PEX40039): Electronics

[groberts101]

It does beat the Marvell despite both chips still being limited to PCI-E x1 lane bottleneck. Primarily in the writes with reads not being that much better overall.

That chip's being used in larger amounts of devices these days and most upper end sata3 docks and external drive bays will utilize it as well. I have 2 devices using the chip but the main bottlenecks are caused from the USB 3.0 ports with their lack of UASP support. Onboard ASMedia ports don't suffer from lack of that ability and post 400+/300+MB/s speeds compared to Marvell's typical 400/250 limitation.

Still both crappy chips to run a larger capacity/faster 6G SSD though.

[groberts101]

That is much improved over the Marvell 9128 for sure. The ASMedia's big weakness will come in the max available write speeds when using larger capacity 6G SSD's.

Pretty good bang for the buck with your particular drive since it can't saturate the ASMedia chips limita anyways though. Looks good.

[Igor]

I was thinking that Marvell do what it can be done through Pci-e line,be now i see that i was so wrong.Nothing can replace Intel sata6gb/s,but i am not in position to buy new socket every year,and this will come like cure on the wound after Gigabyte sell me SATA2.5 for SATA3.

[Sean]

Nice find and excellent AS SSD result for a very low cost PCIe SATA III card. In fact, it's higher than the AS SSD result in the review carried out here.

I had a quick check and this card (same model # SY-PEX40039) is also on Amazon UK for £21 with free delivery.

[Igor]

BUT(always that "but")with this card my bios(2 sec.)and windows load(5sec)time have risen.Is there anything to edit/tweak so i can low this time.Somehow to tell system in loading to go directly to pci-e sata3 port.

[Sean]

Unfortunately, this seems to apply with all SATA and IDE add-in cards, including the ASUS U3S6 I was using and am not aware of any way of shortening this. The older PCI IDE cards use to be the worst, adding 5 seconds to the BIOS and 10+ seconds to the Windows load time.

On the other hand, at least this just affects the Windows start-up time, so shouldn't really be an issue except for anyone who reboots their computer multiple times a day. I typically power mine up when I get out of bed and shutdown before heading to bed at night.

[mikeee2]

Igor,

I have the same MB and also purchased the recommended ASMedia 1061 card. My AS SSD score tops out at about 200mb for seq read in the Intel Sata II connection or the Marvel Sata III connection. So last night, I tried the ASMedia and was hoping for closer to 400mb for seq read. Guess what, with the new ASmedia card, it's gotten worst. Seq read is now 180mb. My SSD is a Sata III Mushkin Chronos 120gb.

Is there a specific setting I need on the Bios? I still have the Bios from 2010 (when I purchased the MB). Do I need to update the BIOS? Right now, I have drives set at AHCI. Also tried different SATA III cables, disabling Marvel in BIOS and OS.

Thanks!!!

Finally i got my ASMedia Pci-E Sata 6Gb/s Card and this is the best spent 20$(with shipping)in my whole life.Men they even give me cable.
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I was like a child that got new toy.I hope that this card will be better then Marvell on board chip,but this is crazy.I defended Marvell,but now i see that i was wrong,it must be better results true Pci-e line.
If you want to buy this controller be careful,there is same controller with Marvell chip,the only differences are in retail numbers.This is with ASMedia 1061 controller:
Amazon.com: IO Crest 2 Port SATA III PCI-Express x1 Card (SY-PEX40039): Electronics

[Sean]

Welcome aboard Mikeee2

To me it looks like your card is operating in legacy PCIe 1.1 mode, which is where a PCIe x1 lane operates at 250MB/s.

Have a look in the BIOS settings to see if there's a setting for controlling the PCIe bandwidth. For example, some Gigabyte boards have what's called a "Turbo mode", which when enabled, runs the onboard SATA3/USB3 on a PCIe 2.0 lane, but cuts the graphics PCIe port bandwidth in half. It is possible that the Turbo Mode also affects the PCIe x1 slots.

[The Veterant]

Hey IGOR how far from BRECHKO you from I was there in 93 at Camp Mc Coy, then later move to SLAVONSKY BROD in Croatia, then from there move to TAZAR, Hungary, then Back to Germany after a year all together. Nice experience there. Got to see the SAVA river which is the DUNAU.