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Unlucky7 posted:I noticed that there were PCI Express cards that could provide Sata 3 slots. Is it not a bad idea to take advantage of that? I have had success booting off an Asmedia one in a 2008 Mac Pro, if you do use such a card, make sure it has two lanes of PCIe 2.0. The exact card I am using is this: https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDACL6G.S/ Many PCIe AHCI controllers I have seen have multiple SATA ports on a PCIe 1x card, this cannot supply enough bandwidth for even one SATA 3 device. With one drive, it seems to limit the read speed to a bit over 400MB/s, I have not tried with multiple drives at once. Avoid Marvel AHCI controllers, they don't work correctly with NCQ at SATA 3 speeds, at least in Linux. Turning NCQ off may fix this, but why would you deliberately use a buggy AHCI controller?
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The 32GB Optane drive would probably be quite good in something like an Intel NUC running Linux that doesn't need a lot of storage. Its cheaper than the smallest M2 850 Evo. Not sure what else I would use one for, though.
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