We Americans have Fusion-io's
ioDrive and OCZ's
Z Drive to look forward to when it comes to slamming down a PCIe-based SSD solution in our lightning fast rigs, but what about the savvy Japanese? Enter PhotoFast, who has just revealed a luscious PCIe SSD of its own, ranging from 256GB to one whole terabyte in size. The unit includes a couple of SSDs hooked together in a RAID0 setup in order to provide up to 750MB/sec read rates and 700MB/sec write rates. As with most SSDs, this unit also boasts a 1.5 million hour MTBF and should work perfectly within Windows XP and Vista machines. Those in and around Osaka can expect these to land around mid-April for about the cost of a new TV -- seriously.
[Via
Engadget Japanese]
posted Mar 26th 2009 3:43PM
Wonder if Monster Cable will sue them...
It's not a question of "if" but "when."
I have absolutely no doubt that monster will try to sue them. Them moster folks is bastards.
Hello.
This is Lafawnda.
I work for Monster Cable.
We will be suing.
Good thing this guys are in Japan, I don't think monster cable has the balls to fight ninjas.
Next on the "to-sue" list:
> The Automatic, for their "Monster" song
> Pixar, for their Monsters, Inc film
> The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
> News organizations, for describing Joseph Fritzl as a 'monster'
> Anyone who's ever scared kids with 'monsters in the closet' stories.
@beastage... they'll sue the Loch Ness monster if they could find it
@beastage: Or Godzilla, for that matter.
"Next on the "to-sue" list:
> Pixar, for their Monsters, Inc film"
They already did it. See http://www.madmartian.com/legal/
The thing is, I can live without a new TV :)
can you boot off of one of these?
I would hope so, as otherwise it would be kind of useless. Then again, the BIOS might have to be modified to look for a hard drive in a PCI slot.
- michael
I'm guessing that it uses SATA. The computer wouldn't know the difference between it and a SATA pcie card connected to an off-card storage device. That being said, I'm not 100% sure you can book from a device connected to a SATA pcie card, but I'm guessing you can.
The big downsize to Fusion-io is that you cannot boot from them.
But there is the following (badly) translates text in the Read link:
OS startup time data transfer rates, PhotoFast of results obtained in a PC environment,
No assurances can be obtained similar results in all operating environments necessarily.
So if they benchmark's OS Boot times, that would imply you can boot from it.
You should be able to boot from this with any proper PCI-E motherboard
Even if you can't you should be able to start the OS from it using your regular HD as a boot disk?
What kind of TV???
Let's hope its a small LCD.
Sony's OLED TV
Just kidding ;)
Kuro.
Would that TV be a 103 inch plasm perchance?
One of the Laser TVs at the very least.
No, the article says US $ 1500 to $ 2000. So that would be more like a decent quality 50-60"
I would hazard a guess that in the pretty near-ish future most reasonably high performance pcs will have their OS/software partitions on high speed flash memory either onboard the mobo or on a PCIe card like this, thus amost removing boot/loading times.
Huzzah!
How about one them black and white tube TV in a wooden box like your grandma used to have?
source: engadget japanese
"...PCI-Express x8 card..." blah blah..."3 models, a 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB will be released..."
It's got an internal RAID0 controller and SDRAM cache. To be released some time in mid-April.
According to http://www.flashmemory-japan.com/photofast/gmonsterpcie.html
It is bootable (Windows XP and Vista bootable), so it claims.
they have a datasheet in english here: http://www.flashmemory-japan.com/download/gmonster-pcie.pdf
hello companies,
dont forget about the recession,
thankfully yours, chimercial.
You say that as if they started researching this last week.
Why bother with these, isn't SATA faster then PCI-E?
Nope, it isn't. SATA 2.0 tops out at around 300-400MB/sec, 8x PCI-Express will top out at 4GB/sec.
Note these figures are theoretical top speeds, and these are mega/giga-BYTES, not BITS being quoted here
Because carefully brushed aluminum looks best when not seen.
Seriously, What kind of TV?
well they didnt try to sue Monster energy drink
How much is a new TV? Seriously.
It makes me sad because I'll never have one.
If I were to use this to trigger audio samples from (Direct from Hard Drive). Would it be quicker than loading all the samples into RAM? I do audio production and maybe this is fast enough, so i wont need to load up on tons of RAM.
Maybe there is a point hard drives will become just as fast, or faster than ram?
Inside our life times, I expect it will always be register -> flipflops (cahce) -> sd (ram) -> off board SSD/Flash -> spinndels.
In order of access speed and inversely of capacity
Well a 32GB SSD can be had on newegg for ~@85-90. So...8 of them would make 256GB, meaning $700, plus the SATA controller cost. I would hope that the 256GB cards would start below $1000.
Is this the only dive like this that you can boot from so far?
SATA hard drive multi-platters go about 120Mb/s. SATA I was only needed. And now we actually have an SSD on the market that SATA III is needed.
Good product, put your OS on it has use platters for Media and backups.)
This should totally be a recession antidote