Super Talent Announces 2TB "RAIDDrive" PCI-E SSD
Super Talent Announces 2TB "RAIDDrive" PCI-E SSD
Posted 04/01/2009 at 3:34pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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Super Talent recently announced their latest SSD development with a new patented product called the RAIDDrive. This fancy new piece of tech promises to increase the performance and capacity that slot based storage solutions currently offer, by boosting the ceiling up to 2TB.
The RAIDDrive is currently in three different flavors: the RAIDDrive ES, the RAIDDrive WS and the RAIDDrive GS. The ES is aimed at enterprise servers that will perform intensive applications, such as database transaction processing, business intelligence and virtualization. The WS is directed at workstation use for animation, video editing, oil/gas exploration and CAD. The GS is meant for gamers looking for a (much) faster IO subsystem.
All of these drives connect through PCI-E 2.0 x8, and deliver read speeds of up to 1.2GB/s, and sequential write speeds of up to 1.3GB/s. No word yet on pricing or availability, but as with the last drive of this caliber, chances are good that it’ll cost about as much as a car. No joke.
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Asterixx
April 02, 2009 at 4:57am
Nunc est bibendum!
Being priced like a new car wouldn't surprise me. I've got a 1983 Tandy Computer catalogue that features a 4 megabyte extrenal hard drive (it's as big as a modern desktop computer) for $8000, which would have been just about the price of a new car back in '83. A cheap car, sure, but a car. The top-line TRS-80 Model 16 computer itself was $13,000 with a 512kb memory upgrade and two 8" floppies...
I can also remember the first plasma TV I ever saw, hanging on the wall at a local TV/stereo shop, with a $20k price tag hanging from it. 26" screen. Then there's the $1000 DVD burners, the $500 16MB MP3 players, etc.
You want to be bleeding edge you're gonna pay 'til it bleeds. In a few years SSD's will be cheaper than magnetic drives. I'll patiently wait 'til then...
jvc08
April 01, 2009 at 11:36pm
this thing must be very expensive. i probably wont be able to afford it. but it's good to know that such technology exist.
Gameaholic1337
April 01, 2009 at 10:05pm
April fool's or a one up to OCZ's Z-drive seen at CeBIT?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/
If it's real then where on the drive would you hide the lojack device?
Keith E. Whisman
April 01, 2009 at 6:37pm
Fake it's an april fools joke article. I'm sure of it. I don't trust any articles posted on the 1st of April.
Zefir
April 01, 2009 at 8:25pm
I know I saw an article about this yesterday, or two days ago. I'm just not sure where. I thought it was on Gizmodo, but I never found it.
zstadt
April 01, 2009 at 5:15pm
I'd only have to sell both kidneys, half of my stomach, and my first born child to afford it!
bingojubes
April 01, 2009 at 4:48pm
and possibly SATA, as well then.
that looks so fake, but a well-designed photoshop. i bet the next piece of information would be that it could be QUAD-fire or QUAD-SLI...depending on company. would that thing be still limited to FSB on some boards?
soccer1105
April 01, 2009 at 4:13pm
So with all this April Fools day stuff going on today, I honestly am not sure if this is real or not... But, if this thing is for real, I just have to say: HOLY CRAP! That's insane!
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