Need UX benchmark data

[Braindead]

Sweeeeet!:D
I noticed in the specs that you can run the card in IDE-mode, any chance that this allows you to boot from it?

[ceehoppy1st]

The sata III card should be bootable- the seller's rep (pridopia-uk) states that it has its own bios. The Commell 3132 (& the 9125) load bios screens during POST & can be chain-booted. The 1061 won't load bios on the UX (their pcie ain't the same as other pcie's)- so bootmgr/ ntldr/ grub/ plop- no bootloader can see any drive on the card- until some kind of os is already running. Win7 installer can copy files onto the msata ssd, but it warns you that the drive can't be booted- so the install fails.

I've been trying to get a pinout diagram for the 1061 & the 3132 to compare what pins are same or different.

[bigs]

wow, did not know you could even boot off the pci-e connector! How many watts we talking here using pci-e sata and mini sata drive?

Guess if you take SSD out of the cases, you may be able to fit 2 SSD inside the ux? ie one on IDE and one of msata?

[ceehoppy1st]

I haven't measured power used directly (it would be a bit of a hassle). As I posted here, #1, (towards the bottom)- the pcie can't boot directly, you can chainboot from the ide-zif drive, or even a usb drive. The sata controller has to have its own bios (commell-MPX3132) so that it is an active device when the boot loader looks for the os files.

[bigs]

ah do dual drives sounds like a distinct option then eh. Can you fit two drives in there?

[ceehoppy1st]

All of the sata controller cards have two data ports, so if you tried you could fit two mSata ssd in the UX somewhere, in addition to the pata-ZIF drive. Now there are a few 256GB mSata out, so you could have up to 750GB of ssd( 2x 256 msata + 256 ZIF). squeeze in a usb flash drive & a total 1TB of storage is possible- pricy & impractical, but possible.

[bigs]

true so the count is increasing, 3 x SSD for ux. this definately would drain the battery fast, not to mention how to fit 3 SSD into th ux