Another reason for holding off moving from HDD to SSD

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Another reason for holding off moving from HDD to SSD is should we be looking at PCIe instead of SATA for increased read/write speeds and less bottlenecks?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3788/oczs-revodrive-pcie-ssd-preview-an-affordable-pcie-ssd/4.


http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-051-OC&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1427


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The revo is running a raid style set up anyway isnt it? Meaning its not really fair to compare it to a single drive. If the drivers were decent for sata III then you can nearly get 3x C300 64GB drives for the same price that should outperform that revo while having an extra 60GB of space.
 
must admit it makes my intel look slow as hell, but i'd sooner put another gfx card for that money in my spare pcie.
 
pooley said:
must admit it makes my intel look slow as hell, but i'd sooner put another gfx card for that money in my spare pcie.
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The beauty of the Revo is it uses the small PCIe which does not interfere with your graphic accommodations, a dedicated raid controller and PCIe has way more headroom than SATA, it seems a logical way forward. I think the use of three SATA ports to achieve 240 GB is a waste of PC power.
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mayebaza said:
Another reason for holding off moving from HDD to SSD is should we be looking at PCIe instead of SATA for increased read/write speeds and less bottlenecks?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3788/oczs-revodrive-pcie-ssd-preview-an-affordable-pcie-ssd/4.


http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-051-OC&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1427
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If it was a real native PCI-E controller, then there are some significant benefits. Without being able to pass through TRIM, and with only two drives RAIDed it's nothing special.

At current prices it's almost £100 more expensive than using your onboard RAID with a couple of 64GB c300's, which would perform very similarly.

They really should be aiming to sell these for £275 or less if they really wanted them to take off.The plan however seems to be to put fat profit margins on and ride the coattails of proper PCI-e SSD's like the FusionIO.
 
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So why is it 'anther reason to hold off SSD'? The PCIe 'raid' drives have a long way to come yet. So many people bashing SSD for some reason. I've had this OCZ Summit for 12 months now and its still very quick.
 
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