PhotoFast G-Monster-Promise PCIe SSD does 1000MB/s read and writes
By Nilay Patel 
posted May 5th 2009 4:02PM
posted May 5th 2009 4:02PM
Update: Our friends at Engadget Japan have chimed in to tell us they're on sale in the Akihabara district to the tune of USD $1,600 for 128GB, $2,000 for 512GB, and a whopping $4,500 for the 1TB model.
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Is it just me, or do they have "Monster" in their name?..
OMG! stop taking all my slots!
Do these people even have a marketing department? Jesus that is the ugliest combination of images and wording I've ever seen.
G Monster Promise? And then there's that random nebula-type thing going on in the background with a Mech/Gundamn? WTF? Whatever though, the product itself is awesome.
That is the whole point isn't it? The entire thing is a product of the Marketing Department, not the art department, not the English department... in the marketing Department, words and images have no significance, they're just tools to make you want the product. Clearly it's working. :o
PS... I agree with you wholeheartedly... the ad is ugly, the image combination inane, and the name does not connote power or speed to me, it connotes useless words in meaningless combination. :)
And who tagged this post, anyway?
"Tags: g monster, g monster promise, g-monster, g-monster promise, g-monster-promise, G-monsterPromise, GMonster, GMonsterPromise..."
???
P.S. Monster cable sucks
@Jon
Did you see the part where its from Japan?
Hopefully Monster Cables doesn't sue them too!
I think that if Monster sues one more company they will get the next one free of charge.
Damn, I can't believe they did that. Awesome how they responded to it. Nice vid.
@Mmmm... Dohnuts
Definitely to late for that
Hopefully Monster Cables doesn't sue me too!
You're name is monster?
Please no jizz in my pants references!
I doubt the autobot can jizz in his pants...
But he sure can "lubricate" other people...
I'll bet they do sue if this ever makes it to North America.
It's true that it's expensive, but these cables are worth it.
You can buy higher end cables where you'll actually get a better product for your money, or you can buy Monster cables and pay for lots of marketing for a $0.99 radio shack cheapo.
I hope competition brings the price of these things down. Does anyone know if they are bootable?
Standard RAID controllers are bootable right?
I would expect these to be as well. If it isn't, then to put it bluntly, they suck.
I much prefer the giant transforming robot product models to skinny overdressed women holding TVs.
How is this possible? Are they in some sort of a RAID array or what?!
lots of ssd controllers in raid 0, because theres no SATAimit they can be as high as they like
Why are all these companies opting for PCI-E instead of SATA for super-fast SDDs?
Maybe PCI-E is faster than SATA.
NAHHH, THEY MUST BE IGNORANT FOLLOWING EACH OTHER BLINDLY IN THE PCIE TREND.
max data transfer
SATA 3mbs
PCIe the sun
Bandwidth plus you bypass the sata controller go directly to the pci-e lane
SATA-II 3 Gbit/s = 300MB/sec
upcoming SATA-III 6 Gbit/s = 600MB/sec
PCIe v1.x 1x = 250 MB/sec
PCIe v2.0 1x = 500 MB/sec
PCIe v3.0 1x = 1GB/sec
Sooo, PCIe v2.0 16x (ie. current tech.) 8000 MB/sec?
Wrong, MB does not equal Mb
One is 10 (or 8, depending on encoding) times more than the other.
SATA is 3 Gb/s Giga bits per second
SATA is NOT 3 Giga Bytes per second
Also, Giga is not 1000x Mega, when we're talking in bits/bytes.
So, SATA is 3 Giga bits / second
1 Giga bits = 128 Mega Bytes
3 Giga bits = 384 Mega Bytes
So, SATA is limited to 384 Mega Bytes / second
PCI Express throughput per lane (1x) (8x or 16x will be 8 or 16x faster)
v1.x: 250 MB/s (That's 250 Mega Bytes / second)
v2.0: 500 MB/s (That's 500 Mega Bytes / second)
v3.0: 1 GB/s (That's 1 Giga Bytes / second)
So, even at PCI-e v1, on an x8 slot, PCI-e is much faster.
When you start working with v2 and v3, there is just no competition. SATA is slow in comparison.
SATA does 8b/10b encoding which gives you an effective bandwidth of ~300MB/sec
Holy crap. Talk about taking hard drives to the next level.
OMG, I'm afraid of Monsters! Gulp, I typed the forbidden word and better watch my back!
Do they pay royalties to the Transformer's license?
recession antidote?
Have they fixed the issue with SSD where you have to erase everything from time to time because delete is....well kinda broken?
those are just the cheap jmicron controllers in lower end drives. im sure these have better controllers.
it has nothing to do with the controllers but instead is based upon how flash memory works.
and no, they haven't fixed it.
the only way to fix it is to implement the TRIM command so that upon actual deletion of the file, in the background the OS would actually delete the file rather than just delete the location of the file in the drive index.
when you delete a file on current OS's, it isn't really deleted, so that when you want to rewrite to that location on a standard hard drive, it simply redoes everything.
on an ssd drive, it literally has to (at time of writing) first delete the stored information (possibly having to also temporarily write to cache to get enough space) and then rewrite that information.
so in order to write, you could actually have to read, write to cache, write to delete, read from cache, write to newly empty location instead of simply writing to the empty location.
the trim command would do the first portions to create the actual empty areas at time of deletion instead *when the thought is it's not so time sensitive and can be accomplished in the background).
Exactly what I said when I said, "Kinda broken." Thank you for clarifying that for me though.
It's all nice and cool but it will cost over 2 grand easy. Maybe in 3 years when it's around $300.
and that cost, in comparison to the cost of a high end database server in replacement of all the SAS drives it would take to get that type of speed, is very small.
when these start to become available, they will be first introduced into these high end DB systems.
lets see....
to get 1000MB/s out of SAS drives takes about 12 of them at 15K RPM.
at say $200 apiece for 73GB, that's $2400 and 876GB......
yeap.
it's easily worth it.
and that doesnt take into account the savings not powering all those spinning drives, or having to have a 4u case to put them into, and the cooling required to keep those racks of drives cool......
now try thinking about a high end SAN running these things......
:drool:
I can almost hear the lawyers for Monster Cables and Transformers furiously filing complaints with the courts because of this...
Is PCIe bootable? I never heard people boot from PCIe
Sure it is. How else would you run all those RAID/SATA PCIe controller cards? As long as the card itself has a bootable bios (most do) and the motherboard supports it (most do), you're good to go.
why, oh why, is bumble bee in that picture? and in blue too?
What's with the blatant Bumblebee knock-off?
Speed of computers will really be changing in these next few year!
I can't wait :)
Heh, that's funny. They took Bumblebee's body and made him blue- basically, they made BumbleJumper. Nice.
And yes, I know I'm a nerd.
Great. Now M0nster Cab1e is going to sue Michael Bay.
Crap...who would buy it?
And they are going to get sued 3 times...
1. Nvidia
2.Monster (duh)
3.Promise.
They did not mention what operating systems were supported.