aardvark baguette Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 Raid 0 1TB SSD OCZ Demos 1 TB RAID0 Solid-State Drive with Unbelievable Transfer Speeds Who would of guessed that exactly OCZ will be able to achieve the unachieveble. At CeBIT the famous overclocking memory and peripherals maker has demoed Z Drive, a PCI-Express x8 connection storage device that boasts four 256 GB (MLC-equipped) solid-state drives in RAID 0 setup. In total we get 1 TB space and 256 MB of data cache. Put this into a system with a Core i7 965 EE CPU and an ASUS P6T motherboard, get some external power for the drives, and you'll easily reach transfer speeds at up to 712 MB/s read, 500 MB/s write as well as almost zero access time, a dream come true. Now the bad news, the Z Drive is obviously going to cost a lot, about $1500 to be more precise. http://www.techpowerup.com/86997/OCZ_Demos_1_TB_RAID0_Solid-State_Drive_with_Unbelievable_Transfer_Speeds.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFF Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 I need one of those babies!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penger Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 Overkill? Me like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark baguette Posted March 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 complete overkill, which is the perfect amount. Imagine it in a music server context; complete silence. How much do people pay for that in high-end audio? Quite a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepak Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 Now that's putting PCI-E to good use Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark baguette Posted March 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 hell yeah son Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LFF Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 I can't wait until these things become affordable. I would love to have a 4TB version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 Want. Actually, US$1500 is pretty reasonable for early adopter prices. I was expecting worse, given the verbage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 They are hardly the first. The fusion-io stuff has been available for a while. Given it's more expensive it also doesn't need to use RAID 0 to hit it's performance numbers. http://www.dvnation.com/Fusion-IO-IODrive-SSD-Solid-State-Disk-Drive.html http://www.fusionio.com/Products.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark baguette Posted March 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 I bet someday there will be a raid 1 version. 2 of those in 2TB and I'm set, for like, at least 6 months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 (edited) There are already devices like that, and at much higher storage levels. They do cost a fortune though. http://violin-memory.com/index.php They don't list prices for a reason... if you have to ask.... Edited March 4, 2009 by tkam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 Data rate was 6744843.89 Kbytes/sec, thread utilization 0.970 This is my work san Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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grawk Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 It'd be pointless to have that much speed for a music server, tho. You're not going to push that much bandwidth for any music task. I use it for weather prediction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duggeh Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 That is epic. Fuck the iRAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manaox2 Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 Watching Bluray disk rips while downloading full speed off of a fibre channel network with a gigabit ethernet card wouldn't even touch that speed. What would you use that for that could make it a possible bottleneck? I love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitz Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 Watching Bluray disk rips while downloading full speed off of a fibre channel network with a gigabit ethernet card wouldn't even touch that speed. What would you use that for that could make it a possible bottleneck? I love it. Can we save this post to remember in another ten years and have a good laugh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duggeh Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 The thought occurs that you wouldn't be able to use the sucker as a boot drive. Unless theres some sort of hax or it connects to SATA as an option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manaox2 Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Can we save this post to remember in another ten years and have a good laugh? Yes, I deserve it, epic fail. I should know that a theoretical Gb/sec is more then 500 mb/sec. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 disk io is definitely a bottleneck for me on the above referenced system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manaox2 Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 I wish I could say it was not my internet connection speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreadhead Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 disk io is definitely a bottleneck for me on the above referenced system I'm actually sort of surprised by this grawk. Is the model really that data intensive that disk access is a problem or do the researchers do something stupid like write every time step? I mean if you're writing to disk you're screwed as far at simulation throughput. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Am I the only one to hear Styx every time I read the subject of this thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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