OCZ's Vector PCIe SSD to Include TRIM and SMART support
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The latest generation of Vector PCIe SSDs will feature support for SMART and TRIM.
OCZ's new Vector PCI Express Solid State Drive comprises of two SSDs mounted on an expansion card and configured in RAID0. As a result of it's two Indilinx Barefoot 3 controllers, OCZ expects the drive to reach speeds of up to 1000 MB/s and performing 140,000 IOPS. Notably, this generation of Vector cards are based on a PCIe 2.0 x4 interface and come with support for SMART and TRIM.
The Vector PCI Express SSD will be available this summer in capacities of 240 GB, 480 GB and 960 GB with a five year warranty. Details on price and availability will presumably become available closer to the release date.
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Also a lot of boards have a x4 slot that isn't 3.0 anyway. That and at 1GB/s 3.0 vs 2.0 wouldn't matter.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/PCIe/OWC/Mercury_Accelsior/RAID
Priced reasonably? LOL that kind of IOPS is for servers, these are probably going to start at $1000 for the 240 gig and the 960 gig will hit $3000
The controller is new, so it makes sense to start "small" with PCI2.
I bet that I can find many PCIe SSDs with internal RAID that don't support TRIM and/or SMART.
OCZ already has had many PCIe SSDs with comparable performance specs for very reasonable prices, sometimes around $1 per GB despite great performance. I think that you're greatly overestimating the pricing.
Max theoretical bandwidth for PCIe 2.0 is 2GB/s (500MB/s per PCIe 2.0 lane). Practical performance can get fairly close to theoretical for PCIe 2.0, so around 1.5GB's to 1.8GB/s max is not unreasonable, granted the SSDs in this article aren't fast enough to achieve such speeds anyway.
LOL I was about to correct you because thinking naturally being a possessive phrase to use the apostrophe, but alas! You are correct!