http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/ Engadget Comments for PhotoFast G-Monster-Promise PCIe SSD does 1000MB/s read and writes 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/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/

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.]]>May 5th 2009 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/
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. :)]]>May 5th 2009 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/
"Tags: g monster, g monster promise, g-monster, g-monster promise, g-monster-promise, G-monsterPromise, GMonster, GMonsterPromise..."

???]]>May 5th 2009 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/Did you see the part where its from Japan?]]>May 6th 2009 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/Definitely to late for that]]>May 5th 2009 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 6th 2009 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/But he sure can "lubricate" other people...]]>May 5th 2009 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/
I would expect these to be as well. If it isn't, then to put it bluntly, they suck.]]>May 5th 2009 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/
NAHHH, THEY MUST BE IGNORANT FOLLOWING EACH OTHER BLINDLY IN THE PCIE TREND.]]>May 5th 2009 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/SATA 3mbs
PCIe the sun]]>May 5th 2009 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/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]]>May 5th 2009 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/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.]]>May 5th 2009 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/]]>May 5th 2009 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/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).

]]>May 5th 2009 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 6th 2009 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/
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:
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I can't wait :)]]>May 5th 2009 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/
And yes, I know I'm a nerd.]]>May 5th 2009 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 5th 2009 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/
And they are going to get sued 3 times...
1. Nvidia
2.Monster (duh)
3.Promise.]]>May 6th 2009 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/photofast-g-monster-promise-pcie-ssd-does-1000mb-s-read-and-writ/May 7th 2009 3:23PM