On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:57:25 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> This limitation is likely just a byproduct of using a 1 lane >> controller. If one was willing to spend a (fairly large) bit more one >> could get a 16 lane SATA3 controller and would likely do much better >> in terms of throughput... > > If you want real performance from SSD, you ditch SATA altogether and use > a drive on a dedicated card. Of course, you're talking real money now.
Um. I'm pretty sure he's already getting 'real' performance from that SSD, even a "mere" 200MB/s runs circles around my best set of platters at home. -- :wq