On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Tim Small <t...@buttersideup.com> wrote: > On 09/08/11 16:46, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> single-lane PCI-e is still only gigabit >> > > > AFAIK, single-lane "1st generation" PCIe is 2.5 gigabit, and "2nd > generation" is 5 gigabit. Also significant is the max-payload-size > capabilities of either end of the link (lspci -vv). A lot of consumer > stuff tends to be 128byte only, which adds overhead...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#PCI_Express_1.0a dang. then i'm glad i raised this - thanks tim. i was always under the impression it was 1gbits. SATA-II 3gbits/sec isn't that far off of 2.5. well, that just leaves power usage as a concern. l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPweEDwLoYFeji16TgpXLQ84hT=-uvrgy8-86wmew6hoxfw...@mail.gmail.com