sannitig Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 2 hours ago, JorgeB said: It's not dedicated to each port, if you have two disks connected, but are only sung one, it will have the full bandwidth. Excellent. That being said, would be be unwise to over provision your PCIe x1 throughput by adding more disks than you have throughput? for example using a 4 port SATA controller on PCI 1.0. If you leave your parity drive on MOBO dedicated SATA and your cache on MOBO dedicated SATA, one would believe it is fine to over provision or am I missing something? I am trying to think of a scenario where all disks are read/writing at once; then over provisioning would be unwise. Parity check perhaps? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 7 minutes ago, sannitig said: Excellent. That being said, would be be unwise to over provision your PCIe x1 throughput by adding more disks than you have throughput? for example using a 4 port SATA controller on PCI 1.0. It's fine as long as you understand performance will suffer if they are used all together, you could have for example just one array disk there and use other ports for a pool, they wouldn't interfere if used separately. 1 Quote Link to comment
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