Tuesday, August 18th 2009
ASRock P55 Deluxe Bundles SATA III Addon-Card
ASRock chose a smart way to make SATA III part of its high-end motherboards' feature-set without modifying board design, or coming up with new SKUs, simply by bundling a SATA III addon-card. The company's upcoming P55 Deluxe advertises SATA III support, and packs a tiny, half-height card that uses PCI-Express (2.0?) x1 interface. At the heart of it is a Marvell 88SE9123 SATA III controller. The card has three ports in total, two angled internal ports, and one eSATA III. Headers are also provided for HDD status LEDs on the system chassis. While Marvell 88SE9123 has been at the center of controversy recently that reportedly caused some motherboard makers to pull out products that use it, Marvell maintains that the issue is only related to the controller's additional PATA-related functionality, and not SATA III. Now if only ASRock also bundles a USB 3.0 card.
Source:
OCWorkbench
24 Comments on ASRock P55 Deluxe Bundles SATA III Addon-Card
1x slots can only do 125MB/s each way, which caps this at sata I speeds.
Even if the card uses PCI-E 2.0, very few motherboards use 2.0 for the 1x slots, so unless they've made an exception here, this is a marketing gimmick (even at 2.0, it makes it SATA II speeds only)
Normally i like asrock for their addon stuff, but this one just doesnt work.
alot of the other boards are coming with onboard sata 3.
What boards have SATA III anyway ?
Is a good move by asrock in my opinion
This thing has three ports with double the bandwidth per port, so its downright sparta to put it on a 1x.
I was under the impression its 250MB/s each way, 500MB/s total 'per lane' - its like wifi and USB, where they add both directions to the bandwidth
edit: having trouble finding information either way.
www.directron.com/expressguide.html
Each 1x lane in PCI Express can transmit in both directions at once. In the table the first number is the bandwidth in one direction and the second number is the combined bandwidth in both directions.
yay i was right :D (i hate being wrong)
PCI-E 1x 250 MB/s [500]: means that the total bandwidth is 500 MB/s and 250 MB/s per direction. And yes, that old article is talking about PCI-E 1.x, not 2.0.
edit: ah i get your point. you're saying the article is about 1.0/1.1.
I will confirm.
he doesnt actually say if he's talking about 1.1, or 2.0... damnit, that does take us back to ground zero :P
In fact, after googling i'm starting to lean your direction. every damned google seems to be coming up with graphics card crap, and i did indeed make the mistake with that article thinking it was 2.0 based.
My testing did seem to show otherwise, when it came to my PCI-E 1x E-SATA card, (with numbers exactly where i'd expect them) but maybe thats just a coincidence.
you dont even get enough time to let me agree with you!
yes folks, thats it: BTA has proven me wrong.
I am beaten, weak and feeble and submit to his authority. (for about an hour...)