Remember that 2TB PCIe RAIDDrive we peeked earlier this year? Yeah, that was
no April Fool's joke. Super Talent's answer to OCZ Technology's
Z-Drive is on track to ship next month, shortly after it makes a quick stop by IDF next week. The device slots into one's PCIe bus and utilizes a RAID architecture specifically tailored to work with NAND flash memory. In fact, the outfit has actually boosted the transfer speeds from the 1.3GBps estimate to a 1.4GBps promise. The aluminum enclosure houses four discrete SATA SSDs, with the RAIDDrive GS being the model that tops out at 2TB. For those able to deal with "just" 1TB, there's the RAIDDrive ES and RAIDDrive WS, both of which are detailed further in the read link. No exact pricing has been nailed down yet for the flagship unit, but considering that the 1TB RAIDDrive GS is pegged at $4,999 for OEMs, we'll let your imagination do the rest.
posted Sep 16th 2009 12:21PM
I'm sorry but did you just say 1.3 GBps??!?!?!?!
This...changes...everything
...forever....
It'll change nothing for me. My notebook doesn't have a PCI slot.
so..... =/
I assume they mean 1.3 Gbps = 166.4 MB/s?
Nvmd, the article says 1.4 GB/s. That's pretty impressive.
well... I agree, it will change things forever. I think I'll get one ....when it doesn't cost twice what I paid for my car - yeah, I think I'll wait : )
Definitely for people with more money then sense, still pretty cool 1.3gbs transfer speed!
Why? I'll be buying one for my compositing machine and one for my review system as we need to stream up to 4K uncompressed 32bit images in real time. This will get the job done, which is exactly what I've been looking for! And it's definitely cheaper than other options out there.
I was thinking more of the average consumer, but from your comment it seems like it might be good choice for some people!
Throw in a lifetime warranty and we'll be good to go.
Cheapest? For capacity, maybe, but not for speed. You'll get similar speeds buying 6-7 SATA SSDs and RAIDing them. Even if you have to buy one or more PCI-e SATA controllers, you'd still come out much cheaper.
For capacity, the RaidDrive costs about the same as doing it yourself and saves space.
@loocas
...foolish
You don't know much about computer hardware do you?
This card:
http://www.avadirect.com/product_details_parts.asp?PRID=14520
And 10 of these:
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=10000+rpm+drives&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=6369795834220404512&ei=sTqxSv_3LqCNtgf62_nzBw&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=4#ps-sellers
and your killing that RAM based setup for A LOT less money.
Yes, surely, but also take into account the power consumption, heat, form factor and reliability/fragmentation
The last one is questionable, due to SSDs being quite new and not very well tested/proven. But the other points are all for the SSD card.
@ adam
128GB drives go for 400 (good quality) thats like 3k right there...
And that still isnt a consistent 1.4GBPS
Instead of this, 4 256GB OCZ Vertex SSDs in RAID should be less than half the price...
If I had a penny for every comment on engaget i would have enuff to get some of these. I need to start collecting :P
First time I've seen an SSD with a fan.
I was wondering about that myself. I'm assuming it's got a decent processor integrated to handle all of the transfers/RAID/etc which is what the fan is cooling. Pretty awesome stuff.
I'll take 5.
crap, if they can be made into a 3.5" drive, it'll max out SATA 3. And SATA 3 isn't even out yet. We'll need a new SATA version already!
sorry if im wrong, but im pretty sure sata 3 is rated at 6Gbps or sumin crazy, while this is 1.4... means you could handle bout 4 x these with no problem on sata 3
BZZZT. nope. SATA 3 is actually 4.8 Gbit/s and 600 Mbyte/s. This is 1.4 Gbyte/s, or 11.2 Gbit/s.
cool, now i only need 5 Geez
How would this be used in a MacPro?
Does it replace the HD?
Do you use it as a boot drive?
Appreciate the feedback?
Jack
"How would this be used in a ..."
Nuff said...
Porn
How would this be used in a MacPro?
Does it replace the HD?
Do you use it as a boot drive?
Appreciate the feedback?
Jack
It's for recording uncompressed video, innit. Pretty tasty but actually still quite expensive compared to standalone RAID arrays.
O.o what kinda uncompressed video are you smoking? i guess if your doing 2K or 4K...but even at 1920x1080 im never above 100MB/s 1.3GB is major overkill, but still awesome.
I look forward to seeing these in retail stores. Once they are, I can come in with a circular that they have a typo on and get it for $499. hehehe....
Ill just sell my car!
What the hell are you driving?! o_O
Oh sweet, the one in my fridge just broke.
oh sweet, the fan in my freezer just broke
Wow Super Talent's 2TB RAIDDrive 1.4GBps at $4,999 is very cheap compared to Fusion-io SSD ioDrive Duo 640GB 1.5GBps $14,990.00
actually, its 4,999 for the 1tb version, the article says theres no price on the 2tb yet
Er, the PCI-e 3.0 max bus speed is 1GB/s, so there's no way you're going to get 1.3GB/s with this card.
uh, the bus speed is 1GB/s per lane, not total... the current PCIe 2.0 is ~500MB/s per lane, and that looks like at least an x4/x8 connector... you only need 4 lanes to get 2GB/s and this only does 1.4ish... so it's more than capable.
dude... pcie 3.0 is 1gig PER line... so if you have a x16 slot you get 16gig per sec :)
Yes, sorry, my bad,
Er, actually, that's 1GB per lane. And that's no x1 card. It looks like it's at least an x4 card.
buying this for my desktop right now.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAA.
Whoah this is so elite and exclusive.
Isn't this really more of a BoingBoing Gadgets kinda thing?
Wow, looks like I was a bit late with that one.
Your pron collection is not worthy!
But will it boot?
Sure it will boot. Its nothing more then a raid card with onboard SATA SSD. There should be no difference between booting with this or having a dedicated raid card with multiple SATA plugged in.
getting to a petabyte with these is gonna be costly, not to mention the 500 pci-e slots :p
petabyte? that is a lot of porn