Micron Enterprise SSD is ''Fastest SATA Drive''
According to the company, the RealSSD P300 will achieve a read throughput speed of up to 360 MB/s and a write throughput speed of up to 275 MB/s. The consumer version--Micron's C300 which was already made available--uses multi-cell (MLC) NAND flash memory and features sequential read speeds of up to 355 MB/s and write speeds of up to 215 MB/s.
"The ever-expanding workload of today’s enterprise environments requires the technology within to be able to withstand the rigors of data being constantly accessed, transferred and stored," the company said. "The RealSSD P300 drive was designed specifically to address these requirements by using Micron’s high-performance and high-endurance ONFI 2.1 34-nanometer (nm) single-level cell (SLC) NAND technology, ensuring product longevity and added reliability in today’s demanding enterprise environments."
Micron added that the new SSD is targeted primarily for blade and conventional servers, storage arrays and high-end workstations. The company even boasts that the RealSSD P300 can outperform a RAID of twelve hard drives "in some cases." The drive is slated to ship in October, and will arrive in three capacities: 50 GB, 100 GB, and 200 GB. Micron did not provide pricing at the time of this writing.
That's just ridiculous (In a good way). I wonder what the price range would be for this thing.
And SSD, let alone an Enterprise SSD is very unlikely to fail.
That's just ridiculous (In a good way). I wonder what the price range would be for this thing.
And SSD, let alone an Enterprise SSD is very unlikely to fail.
Im not the average enthusiast ;p
It's your data. You choose what risk level you want to live with. RAID 0 is just a bad choice for SSD's. Real enterprise solutions would be RAID 5 or 6 based. Given the added safety of parity those are both acceptable solutions.
And just how hard is it to back-up all your data on a cheap, 1TB hard drive which can be found for ~$60 nowadays? You're spending almost four digits on SSDs, might as well...
There is nothing wrong with RAID 0 SSDs, provided there's a reason a user requires that amount of throughput.
IOps are not improved in RAID? You do realize increased throughput is directly related to increased I/O...
If your I/O was not improving how would throughput increase?
Any workstation/enthusiast/gaming rig utilizing SSD(s) is only putting programs and software on them. Anyone putting regular files (office docs, images, videos, music) is wasting their money and disk space. An SSD raid array would be easy to backup since all it is holding is programs and the OS.
That being said, RAIDing SSDs is still not always a good idea since you lose trim and must rely on the hardware's (usually) unreliable garbage collection methods to keep up to speed.
Obviously you've never heard of Pliant SSD's which are enterprise RAID SSD's that have no problem with RAID controllers performing outrageous transactions with little or no degradation in performance over time.
Every disk will fail later or sooner.
And mine 120GB SSD failed just last week with no warning, just not because of cell failure, but i can guess controller on it in fault as its detected as device, but no disk space on it.
ok. wait 5 years. =D