Hi,

after plugging a rather newish 2,5 SATA SSD to my KGPE-D16, I realized that the 
regular SATA ports connected to the SP5100 on this board can only handle SATA2, 
limiting transfer speeds to max. 300 MB/s. I thought about various options what 
I could do now:

(1) try to get the PIKE 9230 card => but does come with a co-processor and 
non-free firmware like the SAS Pike cards? Seems almost impossible to get one 
though
(2) get the PIKE 2008 card => will SATA3 work without non-free firmware?
(3) put in some PCIe SATA3 card => any recommended chips that respect freedom?
(4) get a m.2 SSD instead together with some PCIe adapter => the cards don't 
have a co-processor, right?
(5) stay with SATA2 and live with the limited speed

Any recommendations for a freedom-respecting choice?

Cheers, Daniel

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