Super Talent Reveals RAIDDrive UpStream PCIe SSD
During CeBIT 2012, Super Talent revealed its RAIDDrive UpSteam PCIe SSD, which is set to hit the market in April.
At CeBIT 2012, Super Talent introduced its new RAIDDrive UpStream PCIe SSD aimed for the consumer market. The drive will be up against recently announced Mushkin and Other World Computing (OWC) PCIe SSDs, along with OCZ's RevoDrive X3 and RevoDrive X2 PCIe SSDs.
The drive is based on four LSI SandForce SF-1200 processors in a RAID 0 configuration. The card features PCIe 1.1 x8 interface and will be available in capacities of 220 GB, 460 GB, and 960 GB. The UpStream drive utilizes the four LSI SandForce controllers for sequential speeds of around 1 GB/s (read) & 900 MB/s (write), which is roughly twice the speed of a SATA 6.0 GB/s based SSD.
Image Credit: TheSSDReview
Image Credit: TheSSDReview
Super Talent has not announced the official date when the RAIDDrive UpStream will hit the market or its final pricing, but it is expected to be available in April with pricing competitive against current PCIe based SSDs.
Source: The SSD Review
Especially with more mobos adding support for PCI-e bootable drives, it will be good news for the consumers
The question is: What the heck do they do with all those kidneys???
Make more SSD's. Drive competition. Lower prices. I need to upgrade from my pair of 2nd Gen 80GB Intel drives.
Tom's, has there be any speculation about where SSD prices are heading? When can we see some good drops?
the price of several SSD's + good raid controller can be much more expensive and have less performance then SOME pci-e SSD's.
Bottom line, a standard Sata SSD is a big difference in game load times over standard 7200 HDD, but differences between PCI-E SSDs and Sata SSDs in gaming are very small.
Best value atm for gaming is a 120GB / 240GB SATA SSD, II or III depending on motherboard capability (I always opt for III now a days since prices are pretty close and it's backwards compatible anyway.)
But ya, SSDs make a difference, and they are totally worth the 150-250 bucks spent, imo.
For example, loading in mass effect 3 is less than a second for me. And as resolutions go higher and games get more detailed, more data will be required to load a level. So when it requires loading 10gb of data for a level, your hard drive will take a good 2 minutes and 5 seconds, while the sad I mentioned above would just take 5 seconds. Hmm...5 seconds, or 2 minutes and 5 seconds. 25 seconds, or 1 second?
And the hard drive mentioned in this post is a fail. Revodrive 3 x2 max iops already puts out twice the performance of this drive.
Source: http://thessdreview.com/our-reviews/mydigitalssd-32gb-ddr2-super-cache-msata-ssd-review/
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