Hey gang,
I was just curious and am having trouble finding definitive information on this. I'm going to be purchasing an SSD in the near future (Vertex 3 ) but I have a slight dilemma... I kind of overspent on my almost fully updated build and cheaped out on my mobo, I got a GA-X58-USB3 which does not have onboard SATA III, so I will need to purchase a PCIe card to handle the drive, (Possibly a raid controller, but that won't be happening in the near future, so for now just a card with a couple of ports). I have heard speculation about cards that operate on a PCIe x1 interface not being able to utilize the full bandwidth of SATA III, I would like some closure on this. Because reason A...: Why would a card that operates on x1 for the soul purpose of enabling SATA III exist if it can't utilize the bandwidth since SATA III is backwards compatible with SATA II, that just defeats the purpose. And reason B....: I read this in a couple newegg reviews, which, lets face it... are written by hapless techno-wienies half of the time and should generally be taken with a grain of salt. But still, my anal retentive self just wants to make sure. Any help on this or recommendations for the card would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance
I was just curious and am having trouble finding definitive information on this. I'm going to be purchasing an SSD in the near future (Vertex 3 ) but I have a slight dilemma... I kind of overspent on my almost fully updated build and cheaped out on my mobo, I got a GA-X58-USB3 which does not have onboard SATA III, so I will need to purchase a PCIe card to handle the drive, (Possibly a raid controller, but that won't be happening in the near future, so for now just a card with a couple of ports). I have heard speculation about cards that operate on a PCIe x1 interface not being able to utilize the full bandwidth of SATA III, I would like some closure on this. Because reason A...: Why would a card that operates on x1 for the soul purpose of enabling SATA III exist if it can't utilize the bandwidth since SATA III is backwards compatible with SATA II, that just defeats the purpose. And reason B....: I read this in a couple newegg reviews, which, lets face it... are written by hapless techno-wienies half of the time and should generally be taken with a grain of salt. But still, my anal retentive self just wants to make sure. Any help on this or recommendations for the card would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance