NP9570 expresscard specs?

Hi All, need some information on the expresscard slot on the NP9570. Anyone know which PCI-E gen it operates at? On my M18x R1 it has PCI-E gen 1 on stock bios and I needed to use an unlocked bios to set it at gen 2. This is important to me as I use a eSATA expresscard to connect to a 4 drive enclosure.
Just need to know this information before I pull the trigger on the NP9570. You should be able to see the information from hw64 if you have any devices using the expresscard slot. On my Tempo Sonnet Pro 6G expresscard it presents the interface info on the post screen after the bios.

 

2.0 1x with the unlocked bios for the P570WM too (it's a global setting for all devices).

 

Thanks, is that the Prema bios? Also is that full 5Gbps on the expresscard:

 

My little USB3 expresscard adapter shows current 2.5 Gbps with max 5.0 Gbps on the port.

 

My eSATA expresscard also showed up as 2.5Gbps current and 5Gbps max until I flashed an unlocked bios to enable PCI-E gen 2. I'm hesitant to get the NP9570 now if it'll nerf my enclosure speeds to half. Having 4 hdds sharing bandwidth is a real bottleneck and drops me down to NAS speeds.

 

The powered eSATA and USB3 are alternative connection methods.

 

Tried those options Intel SATA doesn't support port multiplication so will only see 1 drive in the enclosure. USB3 performance gives me half the bandwidth of eSATA on the expresscard perhaps as it is non native USB3 but a Renesas 3rd party controller.

I'm getting about 270MB/s from the eSATA when using multiple drives.

 

There is also a firewire port if you have the option.

 

Yeah, used firewire before but speeds were down around 35MB/s. I'm using an esata enclosure of 4 drives x 4TB each so 16TB storage. Really need high speed otherwise I would have gone the NAS route.

 

It's a firewire 800 port on this machine so should be capable of 400 MB/sec, much like USB2 vs USB3 it's pretty much 10 times faster than the 400 you were using.