News - Super Talent announces ridiculously-fast PCIe RAIDDrive

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Super Talent is jumping on the PCIe RAID SSD bandwagon with a drive offering write speeds of up to 1.3GB/s.

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Originally Posted by The Article

is Super Talent having us on?

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Judging by the lighting in that picture, I'd say so ;) Something looks decidely photoshop about it...

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2TB - combining presumably four 512MB SSDs configured via RAID.

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Surely that would be 2GB if it was 4 512mb drives? :P

4 * 512MB ain't 2TB :)

EDIT: Only 20 minutes late, not bad!

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Originally Posted by strike-down

Surely that would be 2GB if it was 4 512mb drives? :P

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:D

but a lot of people have been making these pcie-ssd contraptions recently, i dont think its crazy enough to be an April fools from what i can see. maybe if they had said it would retail at some crazy low price :D

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Originally Posted by MadduckUK

:D

but a lot of people have been making these pcie-ssd contraptions recently, i dont think its crazy enough to be an April fools from what i can see. maybe if they had said it would retail at some crazy low price :D

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Well, the 4x512MB = 2TB , Oh, either Strikedown misquoted or Hexus edited it later.

I can't really see this as being correct. And with the price of SSD drives at the moment, I don't think anyone would be able to buy this. :)

No, I didnt misquote at the time, was a direct copy and paste :P Hexus have edited the article.

So, does anyone know if this is real or not? Also, has anyone seen this video (linked elsewhere in the forum IIRC): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKcSxd_ynsM

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Originally Posted by CaseyV9

I can't really see this as being correct. And with the price of SSD drives at the moment, I don't think anyone would be able to buy this. :)

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they are not aimed at people though :o the ones that have come up have been the wrong side of £500 so this could be another example but better

Sorry for the link but: Same Here

They would have to be cheap as they have no expandability.

Seems like an odd idea to me though, a PCI-E slot used for a single "drive" (effectively)

What's the difference between this and having an expensive RAID controller and 4 drives in RAID-0?

This is far more efficient as it only uses a PCI-e slot and not any drive bays or cabling. If you can justify the cost and need that kind of speedy access to your data, there isn't a lot that can compete.

How about a RAID-0 of these over multiple PCI-e slots... like 4 on a Core i7 board :D

Although a nice idea, if true..., it can't cost any less than £3000 based on current SSD prices (the cheapest OCZ 250GB drive at £440)

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Originally Posted by Funkstar

What's the difference between this and having an expensive RAID controller and 4 drives in RAID-0?

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Firstly, you can upgrade the drives on a RAID controller independently. Secondly, you can have a multi-channel RAID controller and have multiple arrays setup on the same card.

Hence it would need to be fairly cheap as most people willing to spend the big bucks would go with the more flexible solution I would have thought.

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Originally Posted by shaithis

Firstly, you can upgrade the drives on a RAID controller independently. Secondly, you can have a multi-channel RAID controller and have multiple arrays setup on the same card.

Hence it would need to be fairly cheap as most people willing to spend the big bucks would go with the more flexible solution I would have thought.

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I see what you mean, but I don't agree that the people that are likely to buy this are going to go for a more flexible solution.

If Super Talent didn't see a market for this they wouldn't realease it. I bet they already have customers lined up for it, using it for some very specialist applications.

Random Read/Write IO/s of smaller blocks ?
3 models, so performance may vary.
Longevity of wear leveling and performance loss ?