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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:48:28 +0100
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Chris Worley wrote:
> I'm not sure if you're agreeing or disagreeing here...
> 280MB/s<300MB/s, due to the "compatibility" based design of SSD's,
> while SSS, w/o a legacy controller, can do 800MB/s out of a single
> drive.
>   
I have not heard about these SSS you mention.
Do you have a link?

Also are you sure that the SATA/SCSI layer is the problem? Some hardware 
raids can do 800 MB/s sequential, single stream, and indeed with a 
SATA/SAS interface to the kernel. If what you say was true, that would 
be impossible...