PhotoFast Announces 1TB PCI-E SSD "G-Monster" Capable of 1000MB/s Read and Writes
PhotoFast Announces 1TB PCI-E SSD "G-Monster" Capable of 1000MB/s Read and Writes
Posted 05/06/2009 at 6:30am
| by Paul Lilly
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We don't care one bit that PhotoFast's G-Monster-Promise SSD drive was supposed to be released last month. We're even willing to look past the reportedly obscene price tags being attached to the different sized units, because even more obscene is how freakin' fast the G-Monster claims to be. We're talking about sequential read and write speeds up to 1000MB/s, random 512KB read and write speeds not far behind, and random 4KB read and write speeds still a manageable 66MB/s and 58MB/s, respectively.
The two-slot G-Monster-Promise plugs into a PCI-E X8 slot and comes with a 256MB of ECC DDRII and 64MB x 4 SDRAM cache buffer. PhotoFast bills its new SSD as being ideal for high-end digital and video editing, as well as for a high-capacity data server. On the later front, the G-Monster is being offered in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and even 1TB capacities.
Back to the issue of cost. As expected, these drives won't be cheap, and if rumored pricing holds true, look for a starting price of $1,600, with the 1TB drive commanding $4,500. But did we mention 1000MB/s read and write speeds?
Image Credit: PhotoFast via tweaktown.com
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MyMojo
May 06, 2009 at 10:34am
Ummmmmm... The salivation response has been queued! Yum, Yum!
If humans evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?
tx_eng
May 06, 2009 at 10:25am
Wow, that is so cool.....BUT.....how many motherboards would it really fit being that there is a huge flat area to hit everthing that sticks up above the edge connector!?!?!? Is this real?
Kaasiim
May 06, 2009 at 10:10am
If this can be used as the main os hard drive I’ll find a way to afford one
WANT!
soccer1105
May 06, 2009 at 8:14am
I wonder if you can do some sort of SLI/RAID set up with these, cuz that would be insane.
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