March 4, 200917 yr 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
March 4, 200917 yr Author 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.
March 4, 200917 yr I can't wait until these things become affordable. I would love to have a 4TB version.
March 4, 200917 yr Want. Actually, US$1500 is pretty reasonable for early adopter prices. I was expecting worse, given the verbage.
March 4, 200917 yr 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
March 4, 200917 yr Author 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.
March 4, 200917 yr 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, 200917 yr by tkam
March 4, 200917 yr 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
March 4, 200917 yr 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.
March 4, 200917 yr 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?
March 4, 200917 yr 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.
March 5, 200917 yr 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.
March 5, 200917 yr 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.
Please sign in to comment
You will be able to leave a comment after signing in
Sign In Now