Quote Originally Posted by zinsco View Post
Ya, but are you using a vertex 3. I don't care what is done to the firmware. The marvel 9128 is limited to only 1x PCIe lanes and the vertex 3 needs more. Now, the marvel 9182 uses 2x PCIe lanes,
but even at that the numbers are still not as good as intel and our board doesn't have the 9182.
PCI-E 2.0/2.1 has theoretical throughput of 640MB/s, which is 500MB/s practically. Now, Vertex 3 has maximum read speed up to 550MB/s.
I wouldn't call it seriously limited. Even if you use two of them, non RAID, you shouldn't experience any bottlenecks, as they are rarely used at the same time.