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Hoping to settle a question that came up on another forum.
I have a Dell Studio XPS 9100. The basic specs appear below.
I am a user of Pro Tools 11.3, a professional-level DAW.
Another Pro Tools user suggested that I should install a PCIe SATA III 6.0 GB card and connect my boot drive to that, to improve performance over the motherboard's SATA II.
Some of what I have read about this indicates that the performance improvement will be minimal at best and that speeds and performance could actually drop.
I read this, from a StarTech technical support person:
Generally speaking, PCIe based controllers will always be a little slower as there is quite a bit more overhead required to run them and the data is passing through a different BUS. Also other devices like PMVideo cards and sound cards and other controllers can slow down the PCIe Bus 6Gbps is a theoretical max. In reality the speed is quite a bit lower.
Again, true or false?
Thanks for any input anyone can provide.
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Operating System
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 960 @ 3.20GHz
RAM
24.0GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Dell Inc. 05DN3X (CPU 1)
Graphics
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (EVGA)
Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series
Used Transfer Mode SATA II 3.0Gb/s
Interface SATA
Capacity 476 GB
I have a Dell Studio XPS 9100. The basic specs appear below.
I am a user of Pro Tools 11.3, a professional-level DAW.
Another Pro Tools user suggested that I should install a PCIe SATA III 6.0 GB card and connect my boot drive to that, to improve performance over the motherboard's SATA II.
Some of what I have read about this indicates that the performance improvement will be minimal at best and that speeds and performance could actually drop.
- True or false?
I read this, from a StarTech technical support person:
Generally speaking, PCIe based controllers will always be a little slower as there is quite a bit more overhead required to run them and the data is passing through a different BUS. Also other devices like PMVideo cards and sound cards and other controllers can slow down the PCIe Bus 6Gbps is a theoretical max. In reality the speed is quite a bit lower.
Again, true or false?
Thanks for any input anyone can provide.
*****
Operating System
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 960 @ 3.20GHz
RAM
24.0GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Dell Inc. 05DN3X (CPU 1)
Graphics
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (EVGA)
Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series
Used Transfer Mode SATA II 3.0Gb/s
Interface SATA
Capacity 476 GB