Super Talent 2 TB SSDs Coming Next Month
Super Talent is shipping its PCIe-based SSDs next month, including the 2 TB Gamer version.
Super Talent Technology said earlier today that it's shipping its PCI Express RAIDDrive SSDs in early October. The company chose to use the PCIe Gen. 2.0 x8 interface in order to take advantage of the PCIe's heavy-duty pipeline, providing more than ten times more bandwidth than the SATA-II 3 Gbps bus (and five times more than the upcoming SATA-III bus apparently).
According to the company, the SSDs will come in three flavors: Enterprise, Workstation, and Gamers. All three use Super Talent's super patent pending RAID architecture optimized for NAND flash memory, and offer sequential read speeds of up to 1.4 GB/sec and sequential write speeds up to 1.2 GB/sec. Both the Enterprise and Workstation models feature storage space of up to 1 TB, however the company showed true love for PC gamers, throwing in a hefty 2 TB capacity.
“RAIDDrive SSDs are a quantum leap ahead of existing SSDs in sequential transfer speeds due to our RAID architecture combined with the latest in flash technology and the bandwidth of the PCI Express interface," Super Talent COO, CH Lee said. "RAIDDrive shatters previous storage system bottlenecks and sets a new standard in performance."
Super Talent also said that the OEM pricing for the 1 TB Gamers version will cost a face-slapping $4999. Interested consumers can check out the SSDs during the Intel Developer Forum next week. The RAIDDrive SSDs will be available to OEMs and system integrators next month.

*slaps face*
I'm pretty sure the "Gamer" version that costs $5000 is a home product. There isn't really a huge pro-gamer market out there. I don't see much sense in having these in anything but an enterprise server... the through-put is just extreme overkill for any small amount of users, let alone just one.
Step 1: Mass production.
Step 2: Significant market penetration
Step 3: Intense competition
Step 4: Drop one of these babies in my rig.
Remember how much LCD TVs were just 3 years ago?
*slaps face*
I'm gunna bet on the DIY winning, as usual...
I'd love to get my hands on a 2 TB model, but sadly, even the 1 TB model is beyond my reach.
But even worse is I know of a large group of people nearby who wouldn't think twice of "Asking Daddy" for the money to buy one of these SSD drives. A nearby college where rich people from all over the world send their kids. These kids don't think twice about throwing expensive stuff out when simple things go wrong instead of getting them fixed. Or when they leave for summer vacation, they just give stuff away and buy new stuff when they get back.
Not all are like this, but enough of them are.
then if they try to say the price of 4999 again, slap them again, then say "oops sorry, I thought you said $4999"
the maker of the product will then finally say "sorry, you must have been mistaken, I said the product will be selling for $49.99"
then the entire tech community will thank you
People who need it and have money to spend.
People who want it and do whatever to find a way to get it.
People who has money and not affriad to spent it.
Who can't:
Me, the bum down the street and millions of others.
Maybe after 15 year I'd be able to afford this on my Intel Hextium Processor.
i imagine Macaulay Culkin
The problem is that those drives where so slow, that they had more returns, then sales of their drives.
I hope these drive are a little better then their first MLC drives.