Proper FusionIO competitor

[Zarf]

http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/new...into+the+Super+PCIe+SSD+with+a+2TB+Model.html

Properly engineered PCI-E SSD, so it takes a sensible amount of space (unlike the Z-Drive!). Should be bootable too as it's targeted at home users and gamers.

1.2GB/s reads, 1.3GB/s writes. Up to 2TB storage. More info in June

There's another company in japan releasing a pci-e SSD this month too:
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-17833-X.html


Things are looking good, fingers crossed by the end of the year I can pick up a 320gb version at around £1/gb.

 

[D D Danneh]

Nevermind. Seems I am wrong.

http://www.supertalent.com/products/images_show.php?category=SSD

Unless Super Talent are in on the joke

 

[clocka]

there's fusion i/o, supertalent and ocz all bringing out pci-e ssd drives. Hopefully the prices for some of them might not be too high, hope intel joins in on the fun, i'm sure they could optimise their chipsets to further enhance pci-e slots for ssd drives.

 

[ihatelag]

Properly engineered PCI-E SSD, so it takes a sensible amount of space (unlike the Z-Drive!). Should be bootable too as it's targeted at home users and gamers.

1.2GB/s reads, 1.3GB/s writes. Up to 2TB storage. More info in June

So versus a standard SSD hard drive - a PCI-E SSD holds what advantages?

 

[Zarf]

So versus a standard SSD hard drive - a PCI-E SSD holds what advantages?

You arn't limited by SATA, and the RAID controller can be optimised for SSD activity.
To get that sort of performance from current SATA SSD's, you'd need 6 high end drives and a £400-£500 enterprise class PCI-E Raid controller anyway (Onboard controllers can't reach that speed).

 

[Theguy]

Transfer rate could be a lot quicker because its via the pcie bus at 4x speed, is a lot faster then what SATA300 could go at...

plus.. it uses up the 4x pci-express which no one ever uses

 

[clocka]

sata2 is limited to 300mbps, sata3 will be limited to 600mbps. Pci-E 8x limit is 2000mbps. Pci-E 8x is very common, not all boards have 16x which would have a maximum transfer rate of 4000mbps. I'm sure the 2000mbps limit will be reached with 18months of these drives coming to market then they will have to bring out pci-e 16x ssd's.

Think latency will probably be better too as i'm sure the data has to go through many paths through the board from the sata ports, not 100% on this though.

Anyway pci-e ssd's are THE future for harddrives, incredibly fast, take up just 1 slot on the board, no moving parts, hardly any heat, no sound, no cables to mess with, just slot it in.

 

[Blackout]

...future for harddrives, incredibly fast, take up just 1 slot on the board, no moving parts, hardly any heat, no sound, no cables to mess with, just slot it in.

Amen to that! Even if speed was the same I (to keep price down) I would be keen for the reduction in cable clutter!