OCZ's HSDL: A New Storage Link For Super-Fast SSDs

Name: Test Setup And Benchmarks - OCZ&#039;s HSDL: A New Storage Link For Super-Fast SSDs
Author: Chris Angelini

by Chris Angelini September 28, 2010 at 11:00 PM

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Test Setup And Benchmarks

Test Hardware
Processor	Intel Core i7-980X (Gulftown) 3.33 GHz, 6.4 GT/s, 12 MB L3 Cache, power-saving settings enabled. Turbo Boost enabled
Motherboard	Gigabyte X58A-UD5 (LGA 1366) X58/ICH10, BIOS F5
Memory	Kingston HyperX DDR3 (3 x 2 GB) KHX2000C8D3T1K3/6GX @ DDR3-1333 7-7-7-24
Hard Drive	OCZ3HSD1IBS1-240G IBIS 240 GB HSDL Custom OCZ Single-Channel HSDL Controller
	Intel SSDSA2MH160G2C1 160 GB SATA 3Gb/s Intel ICH10R Storage Controller
	2 x Intel SSDSA2MH160G2C1 160 GB SATA 3Gb/s in RAID 0 (320 GB) Intel ICH10R Storage Controller
Graphics Cards	Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 1 GB
Power Supply	Cooler Master UCP 1100 W
CPU Cooler	Intel DBX-B Thermal Solution
System Software And Drivers
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64
DirectX	DirectX 11
Platform Driver	Intel INF Chipset Update Utility 9.1.1.1019
Graphics Driver	Nvidia GeForce 260.52

Benchmarks
Performance Measurements	h2benchw 3.13 PCMark Vantage 1.0.2.0
I/O Performance	IOMeter 2008.08.18 File server-Benchmark Web server-Benchmark Database-Benchmark Workstation-Benchmark Streaming Reads Streaming Writes 4k Random Reads 4k Random Writes

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randomizer 7 years ago

Chris I think I'll need to double-check your results. Better send the drive my way.

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kelfen 7 years ago

I like where they are headed but price still high mates
Randomacts 7 years ago

*faints* I will never be able to afford these.

Those HDDs cost more then my entire comptuer
jaghpanther 7 years ago

I do want to try out one of these, maybe sell my car?
randomizer 7 years ago

Chris I think I'll need to double-check your results. Better send the drive my way.
mianmian 7 years ago

Optic link technology may be more exciting. Can't wait to see lightpeak or similar stuffs to become real.
Anonymous 7 years ago

First time saw those numbers, i gasped for air... OCZ, can you try to saturated with PCIe 2.0 x16 bandwidth? And can anyone tell me how much is it in Write and Read speeds at that bandwith?
wribbs 7 years ago

Very nice to see secondary storage tech at orders of magnitude beyond what we're used to. Can't wait for this type of tech to become mainstream.
compton 7 years ago

Stuff like this makes me wish I was involved in an enterprise-class technology environment that could actually benefit from 130,000 IOPS in a package like this. I guess I don't need to ditch my Agility 60, but I like where OCZ is headed.
h8signingin 7 years ago

Yet there are already drives that outperform these by a large margin available for a while now, like this:
http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=RGS0256M&title=Super-Talent-RAIDDrive-GS-256GB-RAID0-PCI-Express-x8-Solid-State-Drive

Read 1.4GB/s, Write 1.2GB/s

At those speeds, it's like writing to RAM, only it's your hard drive.
There were also capacities up to 1TB that cost about $4,000. There were even SLC models (which cost 4x more, approx. $15,000) which are slightly faster still.

Personally, I wouldn't mind having 1TB of "slow" RAM as my hard drive, but it's just beyond my budget.
cangelini 7 years ago

h8signinginYet there are already drives that outperform these by a large margin available for a while now, like this:http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.ph [...] tate-DriveRead 1.4GB/s, Write 1.2GB/sAt those speeds, it's like writing to RAM, only it's your hard drive.There were also capacities up to 1TB that cost about $4,000. There were even SLC models (which cost 4x more, approx. $15,000) which are slightly faster still.Personally, I wouldn't mind having 1TB of "slow" RAM as my hard drive, but it's just beyond my budget.

Yup, check it out! =)
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/super-talent-raiddrive,2513.html
Khimera2000 7 years ago

OK sorry to say i that i do not see how you can compare Super Talent to this one. first its based on an X8 slot as opposed to an x4, but if you want to im sure someone out there will compare the x8 releas of this technolagy to the super talent, second if you read not so closely the super talent uses 4 raided SSD drives whitch means your 3 drives over for comparison, this is after all the performance from a single drive and a single controller and its already half way to the bandwith of the super talent, drop in a second card and you still have room to spare for bandwith, drop in there announced x8 card and you have 4x 740mb read 690mb write VS the 4x 355mb read 215mb write that might be used in the super talent last time i checked 2760mb read was much more then a 1420mb read not to mention that even at those speeds the OCZ flaver still has 1.25 gigs of bandwith open on there x8 card... then again i can be wrong about this entire shpeal...
dredj 7 years ago

WOW! I kinda want show this to my boss to see if we can upgrade our servers. *sigh* Wish we were one of those give-me-more-performance-at-any-cost kind of companies. Oh well, can't wait for the trickle down to enthusiast level, I'm itching for a new build.
nforce4max 7 years ago

If money buys happiness then I can't afford it, OCZ is Expensive!
blackened144 7 years ago

comptonStuff like this makes me wish I was involved in an enterprise-class technology environment that could actually benefit from 130,000 IOPS in a package like this. I guess I don't need to ditch my Agility 60, but I like where OCZ is headed.

I just showed this and the Revo drive to my boss and he is going to get the funds to do some testing.. In our clusters we are mainly limited by drive speed and we have previously tested the Fusion IO Drive Duo but they are just too expensive..
lp231 7 years ago

eh heh, my predictions were right.
On this "AsRock Wants the Best Mobo ideas"

I've posted give an idea of this

"4. Add SAS ports as they can also run regular SATA as well as them 15K drives. But most might say SSD is faster. If that is why not a SAS SSD?"

And here it is!

SAS SSD!
W00T!

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/mobo-design-contest-x58-p67,11308.html
lp231 7 years ago

lp231eh heh, my predictions were right.On this "AsRock Wants the Best Mobo ideas"I've posted an idea of this "4. Add SAS ports as they can also run regular SATA as well as them 15K drives. But most might say SSD is faster. If that is why not a SAS SSD?"And here it is! SAS SSD!W00T!http://www.tomshardware.com/news/m [...] 11308.html
wolfram23 7 years ago

Wow... that is FAST!
rwmunchkin12788 7 years ago

Warning... completely useless post incoming:

o.O

Woooooow....Maybe in 4 years the prices will drop enough to make this sort of thing mainstream?
rwpritchett 7 years ago

Impressive.

Tom's: any chance of a giveaway contest with these drives? /wishful thinking
Supertrek32 7 years ago

I would have loved to see Windows boot time numbers with this thing. I'd imagine pairing this thing with a super-fast posting board would make you computer turn on almost instantaneously.