Tuesday, May 5th 2009
Photofast Ready with 1000 MB/s PCI-E SSD
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 $4534 for 1 TB, in Japan, where it will start selling later this month.
38 Comments on Photofast Ready with 1000 MB/s PCI-E SSD
and what's with the funny design?
I'm glad we have another company following "slot based storage", though for the time being, I'd lean towards a nice RAID controller and SSD's. Or I've seen 600MB/s move through an ICH10R, if you want to save money and use onboard.
and youre on a posting spree N-ster!:toast:
aren't you supposed to be studying?
We built last year a server for a database and web application with 4 OCZ SLC in Raid-5.It's probably for the airflow.
URL pls mods?
= less that 2500$ :)
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 !!!
right fixed:D
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:
to stay on topic I will say... how will it look beside a GTX 295?
I'd rather put that kind of cash to pay my mortgage faster.