- Jul 27, 2015
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I am wanting to connect 12 drives to an Asrock X99X Killer motherboard and get decent bandwidth to/from each drive. The X99X Killer comes with 10 SATA ports and I thought using an Intel PCIe 3.0 8-lane 8-port RAID card would be one way of achieving decent throughput by having 8 SATA ports each serviced by its own dedicated PCIe 3.0 lane.
The CPU in use is an i7-5820K with 28 lanes and the system is equipped with a GTX970 in the first 16x slot. From reading, I gather that, until recently, the lanes not feeding the PCH were used primarily for CPU:GPU connection, but I see that now Intel are making use of 8 of these lanes to connect their 750-series PCIe 3.0 SSDs which implies that the SSD's driver is able to "see" the SSD via 8 lanes.
Could the RAID card's driver also see the RAID card via a similar "connection"?
RAID card is: Intel RAID Controller (RS3UC080)
If not, what other options exist?
The CPU in use is an i7-5820K with 28 lanes and the system is equipped with a GTX970 in the first 16x slot. From reading, I gather that, until recently, the lanes not feeding the PCH were used primarily for CPU:GPU connection, but I see that now Intel are making use of 8 of these lanes to connect their 750-series PCIe 3.0 SSDs which implies that the SSD's driver is able to "see" the SSD via 8 lanes.
Could the RAID card's driver also see the RAID card via a similar "connection"?
RAID card is: Intel RAID Controller (RS3UC080)
If not, what other options exist?
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