Somewhat OT, but possibly useful to all Fedorites

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang at wsrcc.com
Thu Jul 3 12:42:12 UTC 2014


g <geleem at bellsouth.net> writes:
> a 6gbps drive connected to a 3gbps controller is not going to
> have a 6gbps throughput.

And just to hammer that point home, any good modern SSD is going to have
a capacity of 550 MBytes/sec or more.  It is going to mostly saturate
that 6 Gbit/sec SATA channel.  Putting the drive on a 3 Gbit/sec channel
is going to limit you to the 280 MByte/sec range.

-wolfgang


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