Photofast Ready with 1000 MB/s PCI-E SSD

btarunr · May 5, 2009

Recently there has been a boom in production of PCI-Express SSD cards. The cards offer fast storage by coupling arrays of SSDs across dedicated storage controllers to achieve high bandwidths. With market-heavyweights such as OCZ in the ring, this little class of storage products is here to stay. Fresh out with its first G-Monster PCI-E SSD that offers godly read/write speeds of 750/700 MB/s, Photofast is looking to push the bandwidth envelope with the G-Monster Promise. This SSD card "promises" bandwidth that scrapes the 1 GB/s mark, a significant milestone for fixed-storage.

The 3+ slot monstrosity packs 128 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB, or even 1 TB of data. It uses MLC NAND-flash chips, along with a storage controller that has 256 MB of dedicated ECC DDR2 memory. The controller uses PCI-Express x8 to connect to its host. The device assures 2.5 million hours of MTBF, and read/write speeds of 1000 MB/s. All of this comes at a price, US $1616 for the 128 GB variant, $2002 for 256 GB, $3015 for 512 GB, and $4534 for 1 TB, in Japan, where it will start selling later this month.

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oli_ramsay · May 5, 2009

Damn though, I'd love1 of those :eek:

h3llb3nd4 · May 5, 2009

$4534 for 1 Tb :eek:

and what's with the funny design?

punani · May 5, 2009

Holy sheeeet :twitch:

Disparia · May 5, 2009

Oh yeah, I've love to lose three slots for 128GB...

I'm glad we have another company following "slot based storage", though for the time being, I'd lean towards a nice RAID controller and SSD's. Or I've seen 600MB/s move through an ICH10R, if you want to save money and use onboard.

[I.R.A]_FBi · May 5, 2009

h3llb3nd4 said:
$4534 for 1 Tb
and what's with the funny design?

its ribbed for (someones?) pleasure

laszlo · May 5, 2009

i buy 4 .... in my next life

n-ster · May 5, 2009

So the same thing yesterday... indeed it seems godly, but it's like a vertex... putting many cheap SSDs in RAID 0

h3llb3nd4 · May 5, 2009

What?! you call vertexes cheap :eek:

?

n-ster · May 5, 2009

No Vertex is awesome... just that it has 2 cheap SSDs in RAID 0 in them... hence when you do 2 Vertexes in RAID 0 you get 400MB/s average

h3llb3nd4 · May 5, 2009

And 2 intel M25-Xs in RAID0 will pwn any other SSD :rockout:

and youre on a posting spree N-ster! :toast:

aren't you supposed to be studying?

LoneEagle70 · May 5, 2009

That not for regular (poor) user. This is not expensive for a company that need high speed disk.

We built last year a server for a database and web application with 4 OCZ SLC in Raid-5.

h3llb3nd4 said:
$4534 for 1 Tb
and what's with the funny design?

It's probably for the airflow.

n-ster · May 5, 2009

Yes I am... but I prefer studying rigs

lemonadesoda · May 5, 2009

I LOVE that name "Monster Promise" TOP

n-ster · May 5, 2009

Lol yea that is a good name... I will be study for an 1hour

posting spree pause :cry:

BazookaJoe · May 5, 2009

That's fast... Is there a sticker design comp to win one anywhere?

URL pls mods?

adrianx · May 5, 2009

4 ssd of 256gb.... and one big raid controller on sata 2

= less that 2500$

alexp999 · May 5, 2009

h3llb3nd4 said:
And 2 intel M25-Xs in RAID0 will pwn any other SSD
and youre on a posting spree N-ster!
aren't you supposed to be studing?

I assume you meant studying, unless N-ster has started selling himself now.

n-ster · May 5, 2009

studing means selling? :eek:

man my vocab must be bad...

Yea I'm in pre-Finals week aka projects, tests and study week xD

Now, how much am I worth?

NO LESS THEN A DUAL LGA 1366 RIG I HOPE !!!

alexp999 · May 5, 2009

You know what a stud is right?

n-ster · May 5, 2009

I live in a french speaking province

I do not have much of a vocab in english anymore

h3llb3nd4 · May 5, 2009

OMG!?! stupid typo!!*bang,.. crash... click click! taptaptap*
right fixed

alexp999 · May 5, 2009

Depends on the context you use it, originally a stud is a male animal kept for breeding. In a more slang use, its a guy who gets all the girls.

What a way to go off topic tho.

I really dont get the bent bit at the back, and it has air vents like a graphics card! :eek:

n-ster · May 5, 2009

h3llb3nd4 said:
OMG!?! stupid typo!!*bang,.. crash... click click! taptaptap*
right fixed

Too late...EDIT: the girls stole me

to stay on topic I will say... how will it look beside a GTX 295?

Polarman · May 5, 2009

4534$ for 1 TB

Holy bejezus!

I'd rather put that kind of cash to pay my mortgage faster.

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