[kwlug-disc] Multi-bay docks ... 1 at a time??? [Was: Re: Linux-compatible eSATA expansion cards]

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 6:12 PM, John Johnson <jvj at golden.net> wrote:

> Somewhere in the thread someone mentioned "This depends on your chipset.".
>
> All data transfers whether IDE, SATA & USB are channeled through the same
> choke points in the chipset. (as mentioned Southbridge)
>

Yes.


And when I was testing an SSD, and it turned out not to be faster (same ~
70MB/sec, from memory), Lori Paniak guessed that it was the Southbridge
that was the bottleneck.

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