Micron Demos Fastest-Yet SSD
Posted 11/26/08 at 09:58:45 AM | by Paul Lilly
If you're going to throw the gauntlet down, do it a big way and let the competition know what they're up against. That's exactly what Micron has done, who demoed a new SSD drive like no other we've seen before.
Unlike standard SSDs, which come equipped for either a PATA or SATA interface, Micron's prototype drive eschews such quaint bandwidth limits and instead makes do with a PCI-E slot. The end result is a new level of benchmarking that blows every other SSD to date out of the water, including Intel's mighty X-25M.
The YouTube video does a poor job of zeroing in on the benchmarks during the demonstration, but Micron's Joe Jeddeloh reads off the numbers as the two-card test setup runs through a short series of tests. During an Iometer run, Jeddeloh claims the dual drive configuration posted 200,000 IOPS (input/output operations per second), proclaiming "that's what Flash can do when managed correctly."
While the demonstration showed two cards running in unison, later in the video Jeddeloh holds up a single PCI-E card that combines the two displayed in the test bed with 16 Flash channels and an x8 PCI-E connector. He says the card will achieve over 1GB/s of bandwidth and at least 200,000 IOPS, "coming to you soon."
We can hardly wait.
This is why we need Four X16
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Wed, 2008-11-26 18:23
This is why we need Four X16 PCIX slots... Two X16PCIX slots for SLI and Two for these drives. I wonder if the bios will let you boot off a PCIX drive?
This sounds familiar...
Submitted by Talcum X on Wed, 2008-11-26 11:28
Flashback to the 80's and early '90s for the expanded RAM add-on boards. Sometime used as RAM Drives! New spin on old idea. Hey, as long as it works!
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"coming to you soon" ... at
Submitted by Velcrow on Wed, 2008-11-26 11:08
"coming to you soon" ... at a price you can't afford. ;)









