OCZ vertex II

StephenLawUK

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Just read about OCZ's prototype carrying on their vertex series that will use quad internal raid 0, its supposed to pass the limit of sata II so would need for the sata III 600MB/s transfer rate to get the full bandwidth without bottlenecking. Anyone know if it would be bottlenecked if you used a raid card to put it through a PCI-E slot?
 
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This has been known about for a while.

The drive (the Apex) uses the Jmicron controller. To provide the performance and get around stuttering the controllers are running in interleaved (ie RAID0) flash banks. To be honest it's not RAID0 just normal interleaving - just as your RAM currently works.. still if it fixes the problem to call it RAID0 to explain what the difference is..

Vertex and Apex are supposedly different drives where the Vertex does not use the Jmicron controller. However we'll see..

I still want more information on the handing of wear etc.
 
Well after a bit of reading i think a PCI-E 2.0 lane would only be fast enough for one of these SSD's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#SATA_3Gb.2Fs
Sata II can throughput 300MB/s so wouldnt be able to handle the 500MB/s of the vertex II.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#Overview
PCI-E 2.0 is fine for up to 500MB/s so could take one but not a raid 0 setup without being bottlenecked.

Guessing its where Sata III with 600MB/s and PCI-E 3.0 with 1GB/s data rates are going to come in.
 
At the current rate of improvement, even Sata 3 will be saturated before it arrives - they need to think seriously about upping the limit on the next interface!
 
StephenLawUK said:
ah so for older machines using a PCI-E sata card would still be ok for the next type of SSD's.
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PCI-e bandwidth isn't the problem unless its PCI-e x1, its the processing speed or the raid card, then laying down another £200+ for a 800MHz card with cache, after you've brought 2 SSD cards.

Theres this, from just over a year ago, where someone raids 9 SSD drives, his first card maxed out around 386 MB/s.
http://www.nextlevelhardware.com/storage/battleship/

Tgis is a new one with 2 OCZ Core V2 SSD drives.
http://club.cdfreaks.com/f122/ocz-core-v2-ssd-drives-raid-awesome-256100/

OCZ Core V2 64GB £129 each
Adaptec 2405 RAID card, around £179 (retail version)
Total = £437
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One promising thing, 1 year ago that guy laid down $7000 for 9 16gb drives :D
 
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