Found an interesting device

Found an interesting device

[Jason Warr]

Some of you may be interested in this PCIe card:

http://www.addonics.com/products/ad4mspx2.php

I just received a couple of them and have done basic functionality
testing.  No bcache yet but that is what they are intended for.  The
controller is a Marvell 88SE9230 connected via an x2 link.

03:00.0 SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9230 PCIe
SATA 6Gb/s Controller (rev 10)
                LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 5GT/s, Width x2, ASPM L0s L1,
Latency L0 <512ns, L1 <64us
                        ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
                LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain-
CommClk+
                        ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
                LnkSta: Speed 5GT/s, Width x2, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+
DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt--
        Kernel driver in use: ahci
        Kernel modules: ahci

[8:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      MKNSSDAT120GB-DX 521A  /dev/sde
[9:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      MKNSSDAT120GB-DX 507A  /dev/sdf

So you are theoretically limited to less than 1GB/s across PCIe but for
caching purposes I'm more interested in IOPS than raw bandwidth
anyways.  Using "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M oflag=direct" I am
seeing ~380MB/s per device on 2 Mushkin MKNSSDAT120GB-DX concurrently. 
Not the greatest test but it does show that they work OK.  I am getting
Fedora 20 installed the way I want it and then the real testing will begin.

Re: Found an interesting device

[Jason Warr]

On 12/12/2013 09:22 AM, Jason Warr wrote:
> Some of you may be interested in this PCIe card:
>
> http://www.addonics.com/products/ad4mspx2.php
>
> I just received a couple of them and have done basic functionality
> testing.  No bcache yet but that is what they are intended for.  The
> controller is a Marvell 88SE9230 connected via an x2 link.
>
> 03:00.0 SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9230 PCIe
> SATA 6Gb/s Controller (rev 10)
>                 LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 5GT/s, Width x2, ASPM L0s L1,
> Latency L0 <512ns, L1 <64us
>                         ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
>                 LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain-
> CommClk+
>                         ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
>                 LnkSta: Speed 5GT/s, Width x2, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+
> DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt--
>         Kernel driver in use: ahci
>         Kernel modules: ahci
>
> [8:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      MKNSSDAT120GB-DX 521A  /dev/sde
> [9:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      MKNSSDAT120GB-DX 507A  /dev/sdf

Also this may or may not matter to anyone here but I was screwing around
with it and you can hot-plug the mSATA cards onto it just fine.  At
least with those particular Mushkin models but I believe it is supposed
to be part of the spec that mSATA support all the features of regular SATA.

> So you are theoretically limited to less than 1GB/s across PCIe but for
> caching purposes I'm more interested in IOPS than raw bandwidth
> anyways.  Using "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M oflag=direct" I am
> seeing ~380MB/s per device on 2 Mushkin MKNSSDAT120GB-DX concurrently. 
> Not the greatest test but it does show that they work OK.  I am getting
> Fedora 20 installed the way I want it and then the real testing will begin.
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