http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/ Engadget Comments for OCZ gets official with Z-Drive PCI-Express SSD 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/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/
Also, surely if you could afford that and had an expensive system, wouldn't all your PCI-E slots be taken by graphics cards?

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Also, multiple video cards have diminshing returns, especially past 2 card setups, and virtually all high end boards have a 2rd PCI-e slot of 4 lanes or more. A lot of people can plunk down cash on a nice system, but they also have to spend that cash wisely, and even though the card may seem pricey, it's something that can survive several system upgrades, unlike a video card. This would dramatically decrease load times and improve pagefile performance

And then you can consider the non-gamers who dont necessarily need an uber video card, but may want insane R/W speeds for encoding, Photoshop scratch disks, etc.]]>Apr 24th 2009 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/
I'd say most folks only have 1-2 video cards and should have high enough speed pci-e slots leftover.]]>Apr 24th 2009 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/
And dont call me Shirley. :)]]>Apr 24th 2009 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/So you get higher speeds from these? I was thinking of getting two OCZ SSDs and running them in Raid 0 when I upgrade to my i7 build.]]>Apr 24th 2009 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/
I'm kinda disappointed that the smallest is going to be 250GB, though. I'm plenty happy with 60GB for my OS partition, and would be willing to shell out a couple hundred bucks for these kinds of speed in that storage tier. The 250GB version is going to be well out of my price range, I suspect.]]>Apr 24th 2009 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Are the OCZ Vertex SSDs SATA II?]]>Apr 24th 2009 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/
Like I said, it's gonna blow a "regular old Raid 0" setup out of the water.

That said, someone else posted a link that confirmed my fears; 250GB version looks to run a cool $1,500+.

OCZ, how about giving us a 60GB version for $300?]]>Apr 24th 2009 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/
Isn't it about time for the motherboard and case factors to be redesigned to accommodate these slot hogs?]]>Apr 24th 2009 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/
You just stated to be a PC pro and you didn't know that there are Mature, Widely Adopted gaming cards that take up 2 slots? Did you misunderstand my comment? Have you heard of nvidia and ati?]]>Apr 24th 2009 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/
I've been building PCs since the 286 and I wish they go (back) to a back-plane design with daughter-boards for the CPU, video, memory, etc. The motherboard should be a grouping of re-usable ultra-high speed data buss' for the components to communicate on. They use these in high end servers today, but IMHO, it would be better suited for a case that a user could simply swap out CPU cards during an upgrade if they wanted without having to replace the entire board. Obviously a limitation would be CPU to memory bandwidth, but you "could" put those on the same board and still achieve a simple PC upgrade just by swapping this out and leaving your other cards in the system.]]>Apr 24th 2009 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=023228&cid=990.545]]>Apr 24th 2009 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.orbitmicro.com/global/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=OCZSSDPCIE-1ZDRV1T&Submit=Search&osCsid=7bffbbbdafcab3d0ac14bb6a1043d6ea
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It's not really more competitive, Canada Computers is in Canadian dollars..and the exchange rate is absolutely ****ed at the moment, so I think CC is actually cheaper, for Canadians anyway.]]>May 19th 2009 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/
OooO, I feel ultra geeky saying that :)]]>Apr 24th 2009 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcard

this is just a stop gap messure until a new and quicker drive interface is found. ]]>Apr 24th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/
You have a small rectangular mb with hundreds of busses, then CPU, RAM, graphics, data cards, and other I/O goes in high speed serial busses.

I guess you could even use a slimline cd drive in a bus slot for odd.

It would cut down case size, and you could upgrade much easier.]]>Apr 24th 2009 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/
These will be expensive as hell!]]>Apr 24th 2009 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/
Not sure that you are talking about... even with AGP, video cards used two way communications for advanced memory operations.]]>Apr 24th 2009 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/
Video cars are not read-only.. How do you think CUDA and other GPGPU processing gets the processed data from the GPU framebuffer back to the main memory (and CPU)...]]>Apr 26th 2009 2:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/
250Gb == $1k - http://www.frozencpu.com/products/9007/hdd-ocz-08/OCZ_Z-Drive_PCI_Express_Solid_State_Drive_Card_-_250GB_-_OCZSSDPCIE-1ZDRV250G.html
500Gb == $2k - http://www.frozencpu.com/products/9008/hdd-ocz-09/OCZ_Z-Drive_PCI_Express_Solid_State_Drive_Card_-_500GB_-_OCZSSDPCIE-1ZDRV500G.html
1Tb == $3k - http://www.frozencpu.com/products/9009/hdd-ocz-10/OCZ_Z-Drive_PCI_Express_Solid_State_Drive_Card_-_1TB_-_OCZSSDPCIE-1ZDRV1T.html

dont believe me, look for yourself.]]>Apr 24th 2009 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/
250Gb == $1.33k
500Gb == $2.08k
1Tb == $3.24k

Rounding 1.33 to 1 is unforgivable (that's 25% off)]]>Apr 24th 2009 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/Apr 24th 2009 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/
i'm tempted......]]>Apr 24th 2009 5:07PM