Found an interesting device

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.

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.