| Tuesday, 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.
Source: TechConnect Magazine
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.
Source: TechConnect Magazine
User comments
Damn though, I'd love1 of those :eek:
$4534 for 1 Tb:eek:
and what's with the funny design?
and what's with the funny design?
Holy sheeeet :twitch:
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'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.
by: h3llb3nd4its ribbed for (someones?) pleasure :)
$4534 for 1 Tb:eek:
and what's with the funny design?
i buy 4 .... in my next life
So the same thing yesterday... indeed it seems godly, but it's like a vertex... putting many cheap SSDs in RAID 0
What?! you call vertexes cheap:eek:?
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 :D
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?
and youre on a posting spree N-ster!:toast:
aren't you supposed to be studying?
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.
It's probably for the airflow.
We built last year a server for a database and web application with 4 OCZ SLC in Raid-5.
by: h3llb3nd4
$4534 for 1 Tb:eek:
and what's with the funny design?
It's probably for the airflow.
Yes I am... but I prefer studying rigs :D
I LOVE that name "Monster Promise" TOP
Lol yea that is a good name... I will be study for an 1hour :( posting spree pause :cry:
That's fast... Is there a sticker design comp to win one anywhere?
URL pls mods?
URL pls mods?
4 ssd of 256gb.... and one big raid controller on sata 2 :)
= less that 2500$ :)
= less that 2500$ :)
by: h3llb3nd4I assume you meant studying, unless N-ster has started selling himself now.
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 studing?
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? :D NO LESS THEN A DUAL LGA 1366 RIG I HOPE !!!
Yea I'm in pre-Finals week aka projects, tests and study week xD
Now, how much am I worth? :D NO LESS THEN A DUAL LGA 1366 RIG I HOPE !!!
You know what a stud is right?
I live in a french speaking province :( I do not have much of a vocab in english anymore
OMG!?! stupid typo!!*bang,.. crash... click click! taptaptap*
right fixed:D
right fixed:D
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:
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:
by: h3llb3nd4
OMG!?! stupid typo!!*bang,.. crash... click click! taptaptap*
right fixed:D
Too late...EDIT: the girls stole me :(
to stay on topic I will say... how will it look beside a GTX 295?
Holy bejezus!
4534$ for 1 TB
I'd rather put that kind of cash to pay my mortgage faster.
I wounder how many years till there less then $100.00