"$4500USD"

........

dang straight "Ouch".

interesting

"According to the company, the G-Monster-PROMISE will appear in three flavors: (1)128 GB, (2)256 GB, (3)512 GB, and (4)1 TB."

"G-Monster-PROMISE will appear in three flavors: 128 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB, and 1 TB"

Is that not 4 flavors?

1tb is not a flavor is human error.
Strange for decades we were spinning something to read or write. look now... last 2 years and we are boosting to extreem speeds i like it. even it is expensive. the important thing that we have it or we can have it. Thanks R&D

pricy, but dang i wouldnt mind getting my hands on one.

although if im not mistaken you still wouldnt be able to use it as an os disk (at least for the time being)

Well the good news here is that they have this super fast SSD for $1600 at 128GB, that means the slower SSDs with similar storage space around the $1600 price range will have to come down even more. MOAR SSD advancements please.

is this an actual SINGLE ssd or another raid situation with several drives RAID'd together, meaning its actually the same SSD's that have been out all along just in an array. Because, if it is a single drive then I am impressed, otherwise it is just eyewash on products that already exist.

Ok so this is basically a RAM+SSD hybrid. The RAM is what gives it the edge over normal SSDs. Also there is not much point with a ~1Gbps READ speed bandwidth yet. I'm assuming it's read speed. If it's write speed that would be nothing short of AMAZING. Most important of all: Can it be used as a boot drive?

Didn't PhotoFast's consumer SSDs do terribly in the recent roundup?

I bet this thing is ONLY optimized for sequential read/writes

how bout, 1000mb/s read, 1000mb/s write, l000gb size, 1000$

how could they have missed it?

does any ones see a 295gtx or is it just me. but any way

if you thhink about it it is better cost per buck now for some crazy cal stuff.b is buck p is per and g is gig w is mb/s in write and r is mb/s read duh. low is better in score
g-monster 1tb gpb 4500/1024= 4.395 per gig
4500/1000 per read write over all score =88.999
intel x25-m 160gb cost =630/160=3.936
write= 630/70=9 ouch read=630/250 2.52 over all=89.30 but that really bad write
finally ocz vertex 120gb price =385/120=3.208 best
read 385/250= 1.54 best write 385/140= 2.75 over all13.586
that will show you something go cheap and go raid woot. but my test are just by the number not real world performance.scores ocz 13.586 intel89.3 gmonster=89.99

Not even the draft of SATA III [6Gbp/s] is capable of 1GB read and write, so it's impressive as well as future proof. The price on the other hand, well it goes without saying...

*Nobody* expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our *three* weapons are fear and surprise and ruthless efficiency and an almost fanatical dedication to the pope.

They should include this in the Mac Pro desktop. I'm sure they could easily throw in a $4500 hard drive for what they charge.

I want TWO... in RAID!

Want to bet that the amazing speeds are true only if they hit only the embedded RAM but not the flash ?

but can i boot up from it?

But Fusion-IO already released faster nearly 2 months ago?

http://www.fusionio.com/PressDetails.php?id=69

if you put a SATA card in a pci-e slot and hook up a drive to it, you can boot from it... can't see this having to appear as anything different. happy to be told otherwise. This is really a very sweet bit of kit.

So if I wait 1 year this will more than likely be less than $200.

I should build and package these things, and sell them under the brand-name 'Isolinear Chips'.

A few geeks would purchase, and I'd make my investment back. If I am successful enough, I'll get a cease and desist order from some Paramount executive.

Ahh, dreams.

$1600?? HAHAHAHAHA

*laughing so hard im crying now*