Thursday, October 7th 2010
OWC Readies SF-2000 Based Mercury Extreme PCI-Express SSDs
Following today's launch of the SandForce SF-2000 series SATA/SAS 6 Gb/s SSD processors, Other World Computing (OWC) announced its first enterprise-grade Mercury Extreme PCI-Express SSDs making use of these controllers. The first products in the company's next-generation Mercury Extreme lineup will start shipping early next year. These include a PCI-Express x16 card with eight SF-2000 series-driven SSDs in an internal RAID, totaling 3.2 TB in capacity, 4,000 MB/s sequential read, and up to 480,000 IOPS. A PCI-Express x8 model is also in the works, perhaps with lesser number of internal SSDs. There's scope for enterprise-grade features making use of SF-2000 series feature-set. SF-2000 series controllers enable features such as native 256-bit AES data encryption, and native command queuing with 32 concurrent operations. Applications of OWC's SSDs include I/O intensive enterprise servers, storage arrays, and high-end workstations in the financial, telecom, web/mail, gaming, public security, retail, and professional media creation/editing industries, according to the company.
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31 Comments on OWC Readies SF-2000 Based Mercury Extreme PCI-Express SSDs
Software RAID, with what's need to boot on another drive/flash stick.
Are we seeing the first baby step towards replacing RAM with the hard drive? DDR400 had read/write of 6,000 and an access time of 50ns... 0.1ms is 100,000ns so certainly not there yet but i imagine for an SSD, the access time doesn't make much of a difference anymore at 0.1ms; not until it is re-purposed as "RAM" or until SATA/PCIe can accommodate such speeds.
Exciting time... we've reached an era of diminishing returns on hardware so the software guys are going to have to step it up hard in the near future.
Crossfire,Sli are just 2 that come to mind.
DDR3 RAM drive raided....
-drools-
that is naughty fast.