the biggest misconception about lack of Intel 6G ports is that when spanning the Intels 6G and 3G ports?.. the overall performance will be that much less. Not quite as true as some would think.
Sure max reads will suffer a bit as your potential 6G reads across x amount of drives in raid will be thwarted a bit.. but max throughput for these chips is not much more than 1.4GB/s anyways(similar to 6 series max) so it's moot for those running larger SSD raids.
The other thing to consider is that writes are not(or barely) saturated from many of the typical midsized 64GB/128GB SSD's either. So saying that downclocked 6G ports will kill speeds severely is a major overstatement for all those except very large or top-notch SSD's available these days.
Then there's the random performance which is not even saturated on a decent 3G mobo's ports.. much less on a 6G boards ports. That's where the OS lives on a daily basis and is often overlooked or underestimated by most users. My 6 V2's running in R0 off my 6 ICH10R ports are handicapped ONLY when reading/writing from my 8 drive HDD storage array due to max speed cap in the 800MB/s range... not anywhere else other than the sequentials.
So do I wish that Intel would get their you-know-what together and get it right?.. well of course. But to think that anything other than my sequential speeds when reading/writing from/to my storage array will take a hit is assuming too much. Most don't have fast enough storage to ever take advantage of 1+GB/s R/W speeds anyways and I can tell you guys for a fact that opening any statically stored file takes not much longer at 285MB/s than it does with an SSD that reads data at 550MB/s. Hard to make much of a difference when a natively stored file on the SSD already opens in less than a second anyways.
far too much "max throughput" e-peen'ing going on these days, IMHO. Try 2 faster SSD's on the 6G ports and take note of speeds.. then try 4 faster SSD's spanning the 6G and 3G ports and take notice of the max speeds. Pretty well tapped out the chip at the 4 drive array and adding more drives from there stagnates the gain in all except smalls/randoms anyways.
10 ports running in 6G will not change max throughput of the sata chip.. was my point with all that rambling. Just my dirty penny on the subject and I'll be waiting for the IB-E boards before I toss my X58 system over to the kids for gaming. Plus.. there will be many more PCI-E lanes available for me to add another raidcard into the mix without worry of bandwidth hogging or downclocking.
Sure max reads will suffer a bit as your potential 6G reads across x amount of drives in raid will be thwarted a bit.. but max throughput for these chips is not much more than 1.4GB/s anyways(similar to 6 series max) so it's moot for those running larger SSD raids.
The other thing to consider is that writes are not(or barely) saturated from many of the typical midsized 64GB/128GB SSD's either. So saying that downclocked 6G ports will kill speeds severely is a major overstatement for all those except very large or top-notch SSD's available these days.
Then there's the random performance which is not even saturated on a decent 3G mobo's ports.. much less on a 6G boards ports. That's where the OS lives on a daily basis and is often overlooked or underestimated by most users. My 6 V2's running in R0 off my 6 ICH10R ports are handicapped ONLY when reading/writing from my 8 drive HDD storage array due to max speed cap in the 800MB/s range... not anywhere else other than the sequentials.
So do I wish that Intel would get their you-know-what together and get it right?.. well of course. But to think that anything other than my sequential speeds when reading/writing from/to my storage array will take a hit is assuming too much. Most don't have fast enough storage to ever take advantage of 1+GB/s R/W speeds anyways and I can tell you guys for a fact that opening any statically stored file takes not much longer at 285MB/s than it does with an SSD that reads data at 550MB/s. Hard to make much of a difference when a natively stored file on the SSD already opens in less than a second anyways.
far too much "max throughput" e-peen'ing going on these days, IMHO. Try 2 faster SSD's on the 6G ports and take note of speeds.. then try 4 faster SSD's spanning the 6G and 3G ports and take notice of the max speeds. Pretty well tapped out the chip at the 4 drive array and adding more drives from there stagnates the gain in all except smalls/randoms anyways.
10 ports running in 6G will not change max throughput of the sata chip.. was my point with all that rambling. Just my dirty penny on the subject and I'll be waiting for the IB-E boards before I toss my X58 system over to the kids for gaming. Plus.. there will be many more PCI-E lanes available for me to add another raidcard into the mix without worry of bandwidth hogging or downclocking.
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