Intel PCIe SSD card

[Idontcare]

Intel seven SSD RAID on PCIe

The last thing was SSDs, and Intel is doing what OCZ, SuperTalent and many enterprise players are doing, putting multiple SSDs on a PCIe card. In this case, Intel put seven of their SSDs on a single card, and it was fast. How fast? Over a million, 1.076 million to be precise, IOPS. Intel is claiming that to get this level of performance from magnetic drives, you would need over 5,000 of them. PCIe SSDs do not have the storage capacity to replace that, but if IOPS are what you need, SSDs are the only way to go.

http://www.semiaccurate.com/20...bee-breaks-cover-last/

Checkout the naked picture, at the bottom.

 

[jimhsu]

And is that 10x as expensive as the Fusion IO? Let's hope not.

 

[Denithor]

Wow.

That's something I asked about a while back - connecting your storage to the CPU through a faster interface than IDE. Now they've done it with impressive results.

Wonder how long we have to wait before they have a commercial version available?

 

[her209]

What about a PCIe RamDrive?

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: her209
What about a PCIe RamDrive?

Not the same thing I'll admit but raid-0 iram on PCIe raid card worked pretty good.

But yeah, an iram on PCIe bus would have been cool before the advent of today's SSDs. Nowadays if I'm going to saturate a PCIe x8 link I'd just as soon do it with SSDs and have the nonvolatile benefits as well as capacity benefits to go along with the speed and price.

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: Idontcare
Checkout the naked picture, at the bottom.

Reminds me of a Voodoo 5 6000 card.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Golgatha

Originally posted by: Idontcare
Checkout the naked picture, at the bottom.

Reminds me of a Voodoo 5 6000 card.

:laugh: You know I thought the exact same thing when I saw that picture!

If it hadn't been sourced by Intel I would have 100% believed it to be photoshopped.

 

[RU482]

how about a true PCIe minicard SSD? not PATA or SATA that plugs into a minicard connector. true PCIe? Why don't netbooks do this? then they would not need a PATA or SATA controller on the motherboard

I've got an engineering sample from Sandisk from a few years ago that does this. But it never took off.

 

[Emulex]

does it support TRIM?