http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/ Engadget Comments for Super Talent's 2TB PCIe RAIDDrive promises 1.3GBps sequential writes, 1.2GBps reads http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/]]>Apr 1st 2009 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/
If this is real... *drooooool*]]>Apr 1st 2009 5:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/
Just the other day Super Talent announced they will be doing a 1TB PCIe RAIDDrive didn't they? With similar specs...

I dont see a company like Super Talent doing an April Fools joke... Google ya, Gaming/Computer Sites ya, YouTube ya, but Super Talent? naw...]]>Apr 1st 2009 5:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/
napkins for everybody...

Nice,]]>Apr 1st 2009 6:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/Apr 1st 2009 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/@ http://www.supertalent.com/home/press_view.php?prid=a0a080f42e6f13b3a2df133f073095dd

"RAIDDrives support up to 2 TB of MLC or SLC Nand Flash memories,"

OR SLC? Last I remember is that MLC and SLC uses the same type of memory modules, but MLC stores 2 bits per cell, versus 1 bit per cell... So, if it supports 2TB w/ SLC, then it *should* support 4TB with MLC, and so forth...]]>Apr 1st 2009 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/
(and it can't get here fast enough for me)]]>Apr 1st 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/
Ultra-fast storage for everyone! ]]>Apr 1st 2009 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/
It only costs $499.99 - I'm definitely getting one as soon as they're released. These transfer speeds are amazing]]>Apr 1st 2009 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/.
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Yeah - April fools.

I haven't gotten to play any decent pranks at all today, so i thought I would on engadget.
This thing will probably cost thousands, so keep drooling. I still want one.]]>Apr 1st 2009 9:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/Apr 1st 2009 5:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/Apr 1st 2009 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/Apr 1st 2009 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/
My real question is has anyone come across a site that gives real world benchmarks of SSD’s vs HDD’s (and arrays) THAT WE CAN UNDERSTAND? I’m afraid that Specmarks, Winmarks, IO/s, mean little to me. I do know that SoHo NAS is rubbish at transferring a 3GB Premiere Pro video file and 5,000 40k PNG files even in raid 1+0. How are we supposed to work out how much better this is than say an eSATA 1+0 raid enclosure?

Any suggestions welcomed.
]]>Apr 1st 2009 5:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/493-11-x25-e-fusion-io-iodrive.html

BTW, did you once work at Scopus?

Thomas]]>Apr 1st 2009 5:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.spec.org) At the very least, the tests at SPEC put all the array manufacturers on equal footing by running a benchmarking test which eliminates the effects of client-side caching and sequential operations, thus giving a reasonably accurate picture of the array performance.

No one though does individual benchmarking of any meaning on individual drives. SPEC tests array performance. Any other benchmarking suite either is encumbered by local (client-side) caching, or array caching, or not-really-randomized I/O allowing the array to utilize its prefetching algorithms and again, not truly testing backend throughput.

You may see SPEC numbers soon (if not already) which show arrays running SSD drives. But loopyoyo is absolutely correct; SSD drives just move the bottleneck away from the backend disk and place it back at the mainboard, processor, and I/O queue, which can't conceivably move fast enough to handle the full capability of the drive. So it just allows the other hardware to be maxed out instead of the drive. And since SSD gives us higher MTBF than mechanical disks, we'll be seeing a lot more configurations with storage processors and I/O queues consistently running at 100% of capacity thanks to these drives.]]>Apr 1st 2009 7:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3531

that is the best written, and most well researched article i've ever seen on SSD's.

it not only compares them to each other and regular hard drives, it also explains WHY some are good, some are bad, and some just plain suck.

huge article but well worth the read.
]]>Apr 1st 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/Apr 1st 2009 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/Apr 1st 2009 5:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/
Do any of you actually use photoshop? Because you sound like a bunch of tools calling out what is or isn't photoshopped. Get a clue! This is a photo and story of a real device, that just happened to be announced on April 1st.

Do your research:

http://www.engadget.com/tag/pcie%2Cssd

+1.0GB/sec transfer speeds are totally reasonable for a device like this. Most PCIx graphics cards can do 10GB/sec.]]>Apr 1st 2009 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/
What are you talking about? You can totally tell it's a photoshop -- I can tell from some of the pixels and from looking at quite a few photoshops in my time]]>Apr 1st 2009 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/Well unless Super Talent is in on it and created a whole page of information about the products on THEIR site, I'm pretty sure its legit. Then again it could be the biggest PCIe storage farce every.....time will tell.]]>Apr 1st 2009 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/Apr 1st 2009 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/
http://www.supertalent.com/products/images_show.php?category=SSD]]>Apr 1st 2009 5:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/Apr 1st 2009 6:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/Apr 1st 2009 6:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/
wozniak just went to work for io fusion, another company that makes similar devices.

and they've already shown the speed on their first generation devices.
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If they're anything close to what they are advertising, then I'd be impressed. Beyond that, I'll just assume that the release date wasn't a coincidence.]]>Apr 1st 2009 7:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.fusionio.com/PDFs/Fusion_ioDriveDuo_datasheet_v1.pdf

and the numbers arent finalized as the product are still being finalized and not available to benchmark yet.

but the speeds are easily attainable with the bandwidth provided via the PCIe bus in an x8 card.
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and here's their specsheet:
http://www.fusionio.com/PDFs/Fusion%20Specsheet.pdf

seems they were pretty close on that one......
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Shame I have no money. :(]]>Apr 1st 2009 7:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/
Someone combine 24 SSDs together to build a RAID.
And Then...
he opened 30+ processes in 30 seconds...and OFFICE 2007 within 1 seconds...

that's the extreme...]]>Apr 1st 2009 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/
Plus Hard Card, anyone?]]>Apr 1st 2009 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/Apr 1st 2009 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/
SSD means Solid-State Drive. Saying SSD Drive is redundant. It's like saying ATM Machine. Quit doing it.

-aedile-]]>Apr 1st 2009 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/Apr 1st 2009 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/Apr 1st 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/Apr 1st 2009 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/
But in this economy...]]>Apr 1st 2009 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/
OCZ pci-e ssd
Supertalent pci-e ssd
Fusion I/0 pci-e ssd

all will be scarily quick but rather expensive i'm sure!]]>Apr 1st 2009 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/Apr 1st 2009 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/super-talents-2tb-raiddrive-promises-incredible-1-3gbps-writes/According to the company, the RAIDDrive will come in three flavors: RAIDDrive ES (Enterprise Servers), WS (Workstation), and GS (Gamers). However, the base structure of all three models features a DRAM Cache, and connects to the main rig via a PCIe 2.0 x8 interface. The kicker here is that the RAIDDrives are capable of delivering lightning-fast sequential read speeds of up to 1.2 GB/sec., and sequential Write speeds of up to 1.3 GB/sec. Additionally, consumers can even configure the drives with an internal RAID5 capability, providing an extra level of data protection.

So that is the reason (there is a RAM cache to speed up the flash writes [random access writes are slow on flash]).

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Looks like those speeds will be IRL, at least for SLC drives. Having a single storage device with enough IOPS to monopolize twelve servers decoding video is rather awesome. Too bad all too many server chassis don't have more than one capable PCIe slot last I checked.

But yeah, on-card RAIDed flash chips, particularly SLC = EPIC PERFORMANCE WIN.]]>Apr 9th 2009 10:59PM