ASUS' RAIDR Express PCI-e review. Think before you buy.

[Kinyoris]

I see lots of people ready to pay big money when this SSD comes out.

What few seem to realise is that this is just 2 SSD in RAID on a PCB.

This gives you high sequential performance.

But to do this, it needs to go through the PCI controller, through a Marvell Raid controller and through two sandforce controllers.

The result is also horrible random read and write performance, far below standard SSD on the Sata 3.0 bus.

There were only 1 or two sites who got their hands on this baby in April.

Asus is launching it soon they say.

One of them was Hardware Info.

http://be.hardware.info/reviews/424...0gb-pci-express-ssd-review-is-dit-de-toekomst


And the conclusion was...it sucked. It's in no way any faster than a plain old Sata 3.0 SSD except for sequential, and in random it offers terrible performance.

Think before you buy this. You can actually get better performance putting 2 SSD in RAID than buying this, and it will be cheaper!

here are the benches of this thing:

 

[kache]

Is there no review for this product in english? I thought many people would have been interested in it, but I don't see reviews popping up at all...

 

[aigomorla]

for a card with a built in dedicated controller, thats really terrible...
Im guessing the PCH on the 4th Generation i7's are really that powerful.

 

[Hellhammer]

Is there no review for this product in english? I thought many people would have been interested in it, but I don't see reviews popping up at all...

I asked for a sample back in April but at that point ASUS wasn't even sure if the RAIDR would make it to the US market, hence they never provided the US media with samples.