News - Super Talent's ridiculously-fast PCIe RAIDDrive starts shipping in October

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Insanely-quick storage solution coming soon, but wait until you see the asking price.

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I dunno - the cheapest 256GB SSDs on scan are ~ £460, so £1840 just for the drives (assuming you're having 4 in RAID0). I'm sure there're enthusiasts out there who will buy this. Dunno about it being aimed at the gamer market though - how many gamers are going to sacrifice a PCIe slot for one of these rather than a second / third graphics card...? Maybe it's more suitable for people working with large datasets / graphics / video files...

that fan ruins the "SSDs are silent" argument.

I would presume the fan is for the RAID controller. and the fact the SSDs are in a very dense configuration, far more than a normal installation.

intresting to see how this stacks up against the likes of fusionIO, they all passively cooled too, which is a big plus for some blade installs

Who in there right mind will get this for gaming?? - Its aimed at high end server setups, etc imo.

but i want to be in the server before anyone else has loaded.

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Originally Posted by Nelsaidi

Who in there right mind will get this for gaming?? - Its aimed at high end server setups, etc imo.

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& what, exactly do you think server admins do in their locked AirCon "server" rooms? ;)

(& don't say work...)

Interesting, Very interesting!