Puget Systems Talks About the Intel Sandy Bridge Platform Flaw

By Nathan Kirsch January 31, 2011

Puget Systems has sent over an e-mail letting us know their thoughts on the Intel Sandy Bridge platform bug on the 6-series of chipsets. To make a long story short the company says that customers who already own a Puget Systems PC based on Sandy Bridge, you can continue to use your PC with confidence. When the replacement hardware arrives in March, they will either get your system back here for motherboard replacement, or thru will ship you a PCI-E SATA controller to drop in to your system to use instead of the problem ports on the motherboard. They also said that if your motherboard has SATA ports on a 3rd party chipset (such as Marvell), or on a PCI-E SATA or RAID controller, they are not affected.

First, lets clarify the issue. Puget Systems has extensively qualified the Sandy Bridge platform, and in our testing, we have not encountered this issue. We have also had no reports of this issue from any of our customers, and were not informed of this issue until today. The issue is a long term performance degradation, and it does not damage your storage device. The problem is on ONLY the 3Gb/s SATA ports on the Intel chipset controller. If a motherboard has SATA ports on a 3rd party chipset (such as Marvell), or on a PCI-E SATA or RAID controller, they are not affected.

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