On 6/6/11 4:49 AM, [email protected] wrote: > On Jun 5, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: > >> Also worth noting that for various reasons of practicality, >> PCIe(1.0) x1 is questionable for more than 2 ports. I have similar >> issues with the proliferation of SiI3132 cards out there (2 SATA3.0 >> ports sitting on PCIe x1). >> At least with ethernet, you might not be as interested/needful in >> saturating the line. > Gigabit ethernet isn't necessary for the routing part, but many people > like to pretend Linux bridging is the same as switching and expect > it to go at line rate. It does make me wonder if the on-board can go > at line rate themselves, given that the processor has 4 x1 lanes of > PCIe and the chipset has only 1 Gig-E. Are the 4 x1 lanes not taken > up by the two mini card and the two full-sized PCIe headers? > > At least with a 2 port SATA card, you aren't likely to max out a PCIe x1 > connection with spinning disks.
Not necessarily. Especially if you use a a SATA PMP, which is a lot of the point of such cards.
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