Question 1

has anyone done an actual speed test for this? I have 3 msata drives in raid right now, and am worried I'll lose some speed with placing two on this card.

Accepted Answer

I actually ran tests today on this card using 2 Samsung 850 EVO mSATA 250GB drives.  Utilizing a Dell PowerEdge R710 with 2 x E5620 and 144GB of memory, Windows 2012 R2 Standard (clean install) and CrystalDiskMark 5.1.2 x64, I ran 3 scenarios:

5 files 1GB each
Read MB/s x Write MB/s

[Windows Server 2012 R2 RAID 1]
Seq Q32T1: 790.9 x 424.4
4K Q32T1: 286.2 x 154.2
Seq: 458.8 x 380.4
4K: 20.44 x 45.65

[Vantec Hardware RAID 1]
Seq Q32T1: 815.4 x 428.9
4K Q32T1: 319.2 x 271.0
Seq: 695.6 x 407.9
4K: 32.55 x 65.23

[Vantec Hardware RAID 0 - Just for fun]
Seq Q32T1: 819.3 x 819.3
4K Q32T1: 335.3 x 341.3
Seq: 742.6 x 750.4
4K: 31.32 x 70.41

Question 2

Can this be use for Wifi/BT mSata cards?

Accepted Answer

No, strictly SSD cards.

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