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Question about PCIe SSD drives.

Denithor

Denithor

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http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3688

PCIe cards based on SSD controllers with tons of NAND flash are the next frontier for the technology. Why deal with the current SATA bottlenecks when you can push close to a Gigabyte per second of data over some PCIe lanes?
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With Intel now incorporating the PCIe lanes directly into their cpus (S1156 chips) are there any issues with these drives sharing resources with graphics cards? It seems like you would quickly run out of available lanes if you had one or two of these drives along with a discrete GPU.

X58 is sounding better and better going forward...
 
The P55 can support an x16 slot and an x4 slot, or x8/x8/x4. If you want to use 2 PCIe-x4 SSDs, yes, you'll have to get a motherboard with the latter configuration and it will knock your graphics card down to x8. With just 1 PCI-e SSD, you can use the former configuration and make no sacrifices.
 
So these drives are plugged into either x4 or x16 slots? IE the x1 slots are still mostly useless?
 
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