Whoa momma ♥ ♥ ♥

[aardvark baguette]

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

[LFF]

I need one of those babies!!!!

[penger]

Overkill? Me like.

[aardvark baguette]

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.

[deepak]

Now that's putting PCI-E to good use

[aardvark baguette]

hell yeah son

[aardvark baguette]

[LFF]

I can't wait until these things become affordable. I would love to have a 4TB version.

[Dusty Chalk]

Want. Actually, US$1500 is pretty reasonable for early adopter prices. I was expecting worse, given the verbage.

[tkam]

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

[aardvark baguette]

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.

[tkam]

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

[grawk]

Data rate was 6744843.89 Kbytes/sec, thread utilization 0.970

This is my work san

[aardvark baguette]

[grawk]

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

[Dusty Chalk]

[Duggeh]

That is epic. Fuck the iRAM.

[manaox2]

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.

[Fitz]

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?

[Duggeh]

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.

[manaox2]

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.

[grawk]

disk io is definitely a bottleneck for me on the above referenced system

[manaox2]

I wish I could say it was not my internet connection speed.

[Dreadhead]

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.

[Dusty Chalk]

Am I the only one to hear Styx every time I read the subject of this thread?