Hi – This one’s for any hardware guys out there…
I recently installed a PCI-Express SATA card, it says it’s 3GB/s. I also have onboard SATA (which I thought was the old SATA v.1 – 1.5GB/s)
Copying a 4 GB file to an internal PATA drive took 2 minutes using the onboard SATA. Using the PCI-e SATA card, it took five minutes-ish (and the progress bar was all over the place).
Is this typical? Even if they were the same SATA version, I wouldn’t expect the PCIe card to take twice as long as the onboard SATA controller.
