SanDisk Offers New Flash-Based PCI-e SSD Accelerator Card

malware · Nov 14, 2007, 08:31 AM

SanDisk Corporation today unveiled a solid-state storage solution that works in conjunction with a PC's hard drive to store and launch the computer's operating system and software applications when needed. The new SanDisk Vaulter Disk, which is a flash-based PCI Express module, tag-teams with your laptop or desktop computers' hard drive to provide enhanced performance and lower load times. Both Vaulter and the hard drive are integrated into the PC and operate simultaneously, while maintaining a low cost per gigabyte. The SanDisk Vaulter Disk will be offered to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) early next year in capacities from 8GB to 16GB.

Source: SanDisk

HookeyStreet · Nov 14, 2007, 08:49 AM

WOW! That sounds really cool

OnBoard · Nov 14, 2007, 10:05 AM

It sure does, but is this Vista readyboost feature only, or is there some software that is uses? I'm sure a big % of motherboard owners have at least 1 useless PCI-e 1x slot and this would be real nice to that, if it works that is

Need to see some benchies and price.

edit: read it once more and seems like it's just a 8 or 16GB SDD hard drive, that happens to be plugged in PCI-e slot? So you'd have to install OS and swap there to see performance gains, but I might be wrong too

FreedomEclipse · Nov 14, 2007, 10:31 AM

its a shame XP doesnt really support this. otherwise loading games onto this would be pretty awesome!!!

turtile · Nov 14, 2007, 11:49 AM

Does anyone know how fast it will be?

hacker111 · Nov 14, 2007, 11:57 AM

this sounds awsome with 8-16 gigabytes of storage space....sweet

selway89 · Nov 14, 2007, 12:25 PM

No word on a price though

FreedomEclipse · Nov 14, 2007, 06:27 PM

loads of OEM companies like DELL that also do laptops are selling this card with their laptops as standard or for a small price....when i heard about this I done a little research & most sites say that there is little or no difference at all depending on the configuration of the Pc/laptop.

the only way you rig will benefit highly from this is if your rig runs 1Gb of ram. if you have 2Gb of ram then the card wont even be working for you 80% of the time & will only kick in under certain conditions but even when it kicks in, any improvements on the system are so little they go unnoticed.

its all down to if you got money to throw away - personally id rather take the 2gb ram then run 1gb & 1 of these cards.

Cold Storm · Nov 14, 2007, 09:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FreedomEclipse

loads of OEM companies like DELL that also do laptops are selling this card with their laptops as standard or for a small price....when i heard about this I done a little research & most sites say that there is little or no difference at all depending on the configuration of the Pc/laptop.

the only way you rig will benefit highly from this is if your rig runs 1Gb of ram. if you have 2Gb of ram then the card wont even be working for you 80% of the time & will only kick in under certain conditions but even when it kicks in, any improvements on the system are so little they go unnoticed.

its all down to if you got money to throw away - personally id rather take the 2gb ram then run 1gb & 1 of these cards.

with you 100%

largon · Nov 14, 2007, 10:26 PM

This has nothing to do with Vista nor ReadyBoost - Vaulter is essentially a small solid state drive with PCIe x4 interface.
I'll buy it.

edit:
That's not a PCIe connector...

edit2:
It's PCIe Mini Card.

TheGuruStud · Nov 15, 2007, 01:21 AM

This is neat, but still not large enough

There are PCI cards out there that you plug in sticks of RAM into, but still only up to 16 GB. Those are hella fast though. Loads windows in like 5 sec (theoretically it could be instant, but I think windows slows it down....b/c it's windows lol)

largon · Nov 15, 2007, 11:40 AM

This should be in totally different $/GB ballpark than RAM-drives.

16GB is perfectly enough even for Vista (once tweaked with vLite) and 1-2 multi-gigabyte games.

FreedomEclipse · Nov 15, 2007, 03:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheGuruStud

This is neat, but still not large enough

There are PCI cards out there that you plug in sticks of RAM into, but still only up to 16 GB. Those are hella fast though. Loads windows in like 5 sec (theoretically it could be instant, but I think windows slows it down....b/c it's windows lol)

Those are called 'RAMDISK' they were made by a Gigabyte - also I think Asus were working on their own one at one point.

I have seen such disks in retail but only In Hong Kong lol, I dont think their very popular as most users reported loads of problems with data corruption etc as well as having compatability issues with certain RAM modules.

after that I dont remember hearing anything else about it.

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Nov 14, 2007, 08:49 AM	#2
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OnBoard Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Finland Posts: 2,773 (1.14/day) Thanks: 302 Thanked 382 Times in 302 Posts System Specs	It sure does, but is this Vista readyboost feature only, or is there some software that is uses? I'm sure a big % of motherboard owners have at least 1 useless PCI-e 1x slot and this would be real nice to that, if it works that is Need to see some benchies and price. edit: read it once more and seems like it's just a 8 or 16GB SDD hard drive, that happens to be plugged in PCI-e slot? So you'd have to install OS and swap there to see performance gains, but I might be wrong too Last edited by OnBoard; Nov 14, 2007 at 10:12 AM.

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largon Join Date: May 2005 Location: Tre, Suomi Finland Posts: 2,696 (0.92/day) Thanks: 1 Thanked 437 Times in 335 Posts System Specs	This has nothing to do with Vista nor ReadyBoost - Vaulter is essentially a small solid state drive with PCIe x4 interface. I'll buy it. edit: That's not a PCIe connector... edit2: It's PCIe Mini Card. __________________ You were not supposed to see this. ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Suum cuique pulchrum est. Last edited by largon; Nov 14, 2007 at 10:34 PM.

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TheGuruStud Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Police/Nanny State of America Posts: 1,394 (0.67/day) Thanks: 45 Thanked 142 Times in 109 Posts System Specs	This is neat, but still not large enough There are PCI cards out there that you plug in sticks of RAM into, but still only up to 16 GB. Those are hella fast though. Loads windows in like 5 sec (theoretically it could be instant, but I think windows slows it down....b/c it's windows lol)

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