ASUS announce full P55 series SATA6G support with SATA6G expansion card

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As seen on P7P55D Premium, ASUS now use the same SATA6G solution to create a SATA6G expansion card.
It's a PCIE x4(Gen 1) card with Marvell 9123 and a bridge chip to give Marvell 9123 sufficient bandwidth for SATA6G.
With this expansion card, ASUS P55 series are now fully support SATA6G function.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Nice but why bother if its only got 2 ports.

 

[Disparia]

All those slides and I still don't know the reason for their "unique" bridge chip.

 

[Xazax]

So wait only SATA III HDD's will benefit? Can it do raid o? will it support SSDs or do the SSD also have to have SATA III to get the boost.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I assume it will work with sataII but will only get the full benefit of the sataIII controller if the hdd has a sataIII compatible bios.