From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8541B138010 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:57:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA97BE0793; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:57:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.164]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E46AFE06F4 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:55:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.133] (helo=smtp2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T4WwK-0006IS-5H for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:55:12 +0200 Received: from 54698b76.cm-12-2c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([84.105.139.118] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T4WwI-0003kX-UP for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:55:12 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4FA1384 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:55:39 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dsbIi7iGfoQh for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:55:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from www.antarean.org (net.antarean.org [10.10.11.5]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 698CB501 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:55:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 62.132.204.72 (SquirrelMail authenticated user joost) by www.antarean.org with HTTP; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:55:37 +0200 Message-ID: <70044ee962e3fe6b9ebe0da5a11cce0b.squirrel@www.antarean.org> In-Reply-To: References: <50356A44.2070307@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:55:37 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Ziggo-spambar: - X-Ziggo-spamscore: -1.1 X-Ziggo-spamreport: BAYES_00=-1.9,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982,RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.166 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: a9f3b44c-e287-477f-a3c3-870238315b13 X-Archives-Hash: 51a6cf303e582f2a4efd2160ba612f85 Mark, On Thu, August 23, 2012 6:05 am, Mark Knecht wrote: > From Kindle so short... > > Paul. Thanks. I'll double check tomorrow but the specs online said the > slots were pci express 2.0. The card is a one lane card but the box > says it can do 533M/S but boxes do lie sometimes. The "2.0" part is the version. Not the speed. For PCI-e it's usually denoted as 1x, 4x, 8x and 16x. The numbers specify the amount of PCI-express lanes used for the port. More lanes =3D more bandwidth. As others have already pointed out, it's a single-lane card. Which means you can only get the max for a single PCI-express lane. On a side-note, does anyone know of a way to merge multiple PCI-expres 1x ports together without having to completely rewire the mainboard and "patch" the BIOS? My skillset, unfortunately, doesn't include that... --=20 Joost