OCZ HSDL Link drives.

Cracking product and this will set a new future trend. The idea of just taking 4 PCIE lanes away from the motherboard and 'trunking' into that bandwidth is pure genius. This controller can take 4 lanes now, so 16 will be available at a later date. Thank god I got the UD9, plenty of bandwidth on there :D

I love the HUGE BALLS that OCZ has in releasing beta products. Big gambles they had with Revodrive and still a lot of issues/bugs with the early cards. You know what? I don't care about the risk and negatives. I am happy to be a part of the new technology and to support companies that pioneer technology that break away from the rest of the big players.

I bought into the Revo because they need support to do what they do. It's still benching the same as it was when I bought it! AND, at least its holding up well with the IBIS, although its definately slower by a margin. If they can resolve the common connector risk problem (same cable as SAS) then I am sure there will be mass adopters. Blimey, what happens when you start to cross/RAID mutliple array cards :p

4KB Random Write: 125,000 IOPS? Wow its happenin :cool:
 
I can’t see what all the hype is about.

As far as I can see the IBIS doesn’t do anything you can’t achieve with a PCIe raid controller and a few decent SSDs.

All they appear to have done is repackage standard parts in a proprietary way.
 
Inside It's just 4 Sandforce drives RAIDed together on a cheap controller. It commands too much of a premium for what it is. It makes more sense in the long run to pick up a £200 Hardware RAID card and do it yourself.

As for HSDL, it'll be obsolete next year when Light Peak arrives.
 
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