[mythtv-users] 8 Port SATA PCIx card

[Simon Hobson]

Albert Graham wrote:

>The card you specify is limited to 300MB per port (600M) limit, with 
>modern drives this will be a serverly limiting factor.

Unless I'm missing something, it says 8 channel @ 300MB/s per channel 
- which is the spec for SATA running at 3Gb/s.

IIRC, a four lane PCIe bus will give you 10Gb/s, or about 1GB/s. By 
contrast, the older PCI slots give you something like 1/2 a GB/s for 
a 64bit/66MHz or 1GB/s for 64bit/133MHz.

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