Super Talent Will Release First PCI Express RAIDDrive SSDs in Early October
Super Talent Will Release First PCI Express RAIDDrive SSDs in Early October
Posted 09/17/2009 at 9:15am
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TGDaily has found out that Super Talent plans to start shipping its first PCI Express RAIDDrive SSDs in early October, so you may want to hang on for a few more weeks if you're currently planning a dream machine build. Why is that? Because these purportedly stupid-fast drives are being designed to thrash the throughput bottleneck in your PC's storage subsystem and leave the SATA bus bandwidth limitation in the dust.
"The PCIe Gen. 2.0 x8 interface used by RAIDDrive SSDs supports 4GB/s bandwidth, more than ten times that of the SATA-II 3Gbps bus, and five times greater than the not yet available SATA-III bus," a Super Talent spokesperson told TGDaily. "Currently, there is no other way to achieve the same performance, except via Fusio-IO - but that costs approximately $10,000 for equivalent speeds."
Super Talent, meanwhile, is targeting a price point below $1,000 in hopes of appealing to both gamers and enterprise users, the spokesperson added. Three versions will be made available, including:
- RAIDDrive GS: Aimed at power users and gamers, supports RAID 0 or 5, uses MLC flash, and available in capacities up to 2TB
- RAIDDrive ES: For enterprise servers, supports RAID 0 or 5, fits in a 3U rack mount chassis, uses SLC flash, and available in capacities up to 1TB
- RAIDDrive WS: Geared towards workstation users, supports RAID 0 or 5, uses SLC flash, available in capacities up to 1TB
Assuming it lives up to the hype, would you drop upwards of $1,000 for a super-speedy SSD configuration?
Image Credit: Super Talent via HotHardware.com
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mesiah
September 17, 2009 at 7:54pm
As usual, the price of admission for a new technology like this is just too much for the average person. You are paying a premium to be able to be the first person on your block to own it. Personally, I wouldn't spend 1k on this, and I am sure most people would not. But I don't think anyone can doubt the increased performance possible from using the pci-e bus for a storage interface. If this takes off, and I think it will, We will start seeing motherboards with a lot more than just 2 or 3 pci-e X16 slots (asus already offers a few) and I for one welcome that.
kiaghi7
September 17, 2009 at 1:50pm
This device is NOT being marketed to the main-stream user here folks, let's get that striaght from the first sentence...
I am not in the category for one of these either, I simply don't -need- it... However if one found its way to my door I would give it a home :D lol
This device is going to be the "first" mass produced and specifically developed device of its kind with the PCI-E interface specifically. While the first of its kind is clearly quite expensive, it's no more outrageous than the first 1x DVD-ROM drives, or the first 1x CD-ROM drives, or even the first SSD drives. But they were also the first of their kind, and at release were also NOT intended for the mainstream for quite some time.
Any new technology like this is going to take a couple of years, and additional competitors, to see great change in capacity, speed, capability, compatibility, and of course PRICE.
If you read the $1,000 price tag with disgust, then YOU are not the intended audience, neither am I, as well as the vast majority of users, they are (as the article noted mind you) focused only on the most ardent power-users and businesses that HAVE TO HAVE such capability to do what they do, and the price of admission is considered an expense worth contending with in order to reap the abilities there-of.
jwalch.hawk
September 17, 2009 at 4:25pm
I agree with you.
If we imagine that how much I could afford is not a limiting factor, I can see 1k being a fair price for this.
The issue is that what I'm willing to pay is being heavily influenced by how much I feel like I can afford to spend.
So would I buy one of these? No. Is it worth the $1000? Potentially yes.
relaxed911
September 17, 2009 at 10:40am
Yes, if you can boot from it. Having a drive that fast will save a considerable amount of time waiting on I/O processes. If I can save 90% of wait time on my machine, that's easily worth 1k.
rruscio
September 17, 2009 at 10:40am
My Core2Duo E6750 with 4GB and an Intel 80GB 'mainstream' SSD is already pretty quick. $1000 goes to P55 based 4 monitor setup.
MeTo
September 17, 2009 at 10:23am
Ah No! Not even if it were $100 My next PC will be $500 with a monitor.
LGA1156
September 17, 2009 at 9:25am
good, I hope they drop their SX line in price, I've been eyeing them
smashingpumpin
September 17, 2009 at 9:12am
hell no, id rather upgrade the big three with that amount of money.
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he's pwning with a trackpad? oh really? oh reheheheeally?
hbodek
September 18, 2009 at 11:00am
i think you would notice a bigger difference going from a 7200rpm hdd to this then you would going from a core2 quad to an i7. the read and write times promised by this type of storage should really shake things up.
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