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Can someone explain the practical aspects of 510 ElmCrest?
I currently have an X58 chipset in a laptop with an X25-m 160GB SSD as boot which runs Crystal at 260MB/s sequential READ. I’m not so sure popping for a new 510 ElmCrest SSD is a cost effective improvement when running the old Intel X58 chipset.
Since the SSD is so small, like many others have done, I moved all my data files, Temps, etc out to my two SATA II onboard spin drives with the bus running at 250MB/s max. Even though the 510 @ 6 Gbps can run up to 500-R/310-W MBps, doesn’t the throughput all get bottlenecked at the X58 chips and 250 buses on the way to the spin drives?
So what’s the point of the 6Gig 510 on an X58 mobo? Or is my naïve, uninformed novice understanding missing something here? Can someone explain how this works out in the real world practical sense… buying a 510 for performance when used with an X58 board, that is?