News - G.Skill ramps up SSD speeds with new Falcon range

[HEXUS]

Imbued with a new controller from Indilinx, G.Skill revs it up.

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[TooNice]

Yes. Compete! And bring the price down while you are at it!
I don't need a drive that's twice as fast (until SATA 6 Gbit/s becomes standard), but one of those drives with half the cost per GB? That would seriously tempt my wallet

[TheGeneral]

Bring on the SSD's!!

[latrosicarius]

So the only reason this drive is fast is b/c it's RAIDed internally? It doesn't say what kind of RAID. Is there any parity? If so, is there a mechanism whereby it can inform the user that it needs to be replaced if a portion of it becomes damaged?


P.S. are the speeds quoted random read/write or sequential?

[Funkstar]

Technically you could call it RAIDing, but really it's just having multiple bank of flash memory chips working in parallel with ai interfacing controller for each bank. It doesn't really matter how it's done internally, it's still one drive that if one part of it goes bad, the whole thing needs to be replaced. Just like you can't replace a single platter on a hard drive if it is damaged.

If there was parity, these drives would be even more expensive.