A-DATA demos 128GB SATA RAID SSD

After swinging by A-DATA's booth, we happened to notice the number 128GB placed neatly atop SATA RAID SSD -- needless to say, our lens was immediately attracted. Reportedly, this 2.5-inch drive includes a pair of 64GB SSDs, but we weren't able to tell whether the unit pictured above was a finalized product. Unfortunately, we also aren't sure how close this thing is to going commercial, but it's a delightful glimmer of hope if nothing else, eh?

[Daniel Smith @ Jan 8th 2008 4:32AM]

so it has it's own RAID controller built-in? If so then this would be faster than a non-RAID 128gb SSD, would it not? This sounds freakin awesome!

[Brian @ Jan 8th 2008 7:01AM]

I refuse to get excited about SSD drives, anymore, until prices are announced with the drives.

[zag @ Jan 8th 2008 11:32AM]

What does price have to do with excitement?

I have a 32gb drive in my htpc and its a complete revolution in the speed of a computer. It is the single biggest upgrade that I have ever made to a pc which boosts performance. And this was a 1st gen drive!!

[Brian @ Jan 8th 2008 4:49PM]

The current prices of SSD drives are 30-50 dollars per gig.

Maybe I'm just really poor, but I would never even consider buying a $5,000 128gb drive.

[Randall @ Jan 8th 2008 12:59PM]

RAID? I'm going to assume that they took 2 or more smaller SSD's and are using RAID to create 1 drive, since they claim that they are increasing performance and capacity by using the RAID (sounds like RAID 0). Of course, unless they have redundancy (mirroring) in their RAID configuration (they don't if it's RAID 0), they are also increasing the chances of data loss.

So really, IMHO I think RAID is more of a buzz word here. They don't even say what type of RAID!

[dean @ Jan 8th 2008 7:31PM]

Anyone see the article about the team that put 9 SSD's in Raid configuration? Massive speed. Raid SSD makes a huge jump in performance. If I were to get a laptop with SSD, this would be the drive (as it doesn't take 2 2.5 inch slots for the RAID. And since its SSD, not a big jump in power consumption.

[Can @ Jan 15th 2008 5:42PM]

Well, it doesn't have anything different than a 128 GB drive than, except it internally includes two 64 GB drives. It should double the performance, but it also doubles the risk of losing data (as I know the data is "shared" simultaneously to two drives so if one fails the data is lost as no one can create the entire data from one lost one avaiable one lost one available... patterned part of the file).

Ok I tried to explain as much as I could :)

[Rob @ Feb 14th 2008 4:10PM]

Yeah, having a RAID 0 config doubles your chance of data loss, but if this was a single drive and one of the drives (i.e. the only drive) went out, your data would be toast. I think the deal with this is that you get enhanced performance and, given the MTBF for SSD, little additional risk.

I think this is the way of the future, smaller SSD coupled with RAID (imagine four 64GB in a RAID 5 config the size of a standard 3.5" drive)...Brilliant!

[Elijah @ Feb 27th 2008 3:35PM]

This is most likely Raid 0 and it doesn't matter. These are SSD's and not your fragile HDD's. This thing is gonna rock! Did you hear about the new startup company who claims they can make regular nand flash drives get up to speed by a new controller?