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Featuring an on-board RAID 0 design like it's predecessor, the X2 employs four SandForce-1200 controllers to increase data access and bandwidth. OCZ touts the drive series for being bootable, unlike other PCIe SSDs on the market which can only be used for storage purposes. This should allow for even faster start-up and load times, something already enjoyed with traditional SSDs. Capacity will range between 100GB and 960GB, but the performance comes at a price -- the previous model still retails for up to $1000 and above for the higher-storage versions.
While the idea of a PCIe-based SSD may be new to some readers, it's a concept being pushed for more standardized adoption. The "SSD Form Factor Working Group," made up of Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, IBM, and Intel, is looking to make utilizing high-performance storage easier and more cost effective. Areas the group focuses on improving include connectors compatible with SAS/SATA 3.0 and PCIe 3, a 2.5 inch form factor to ensure enclosure flexibility, increased power envelope to support higher drive performance, and hot-plug capability for easier servicing.
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That is a good idea for the future. I mean even the sata has it's limits and maybe in the future we will plug our storage drives in the pci slot.
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It is nice to see a lot of articles and press releases that confirm the coming of faster and better drives but what I would like to see is a press release about the mass adoption of a blu ray writer.
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Timonius said:
Guest said:can we out partition C on DDR3?
how fast would be that? If you mean by RAM it wouldn't be possible because it is volatile memory. As soon as the power is turned off you would lose the entire 'drive'. But otherwise you're right about speed.
Other than that It is nice to see technology being used 'outside the box'.
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These prices are insane but so are the insane amount of data they can transfer i would love to have one of these bad boys in my rig
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we might as well go for 40gb ram with that kind of money.
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wow i had no idea sata was even a bottle neck, man i cant even keep up with how fast they're putting this stuff out
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So we've moved drives from the SATA ports to PCI-E. Great. I know it's a stretch but can't someone figure out how to use volatile memory for storage? RAM slots are already there.
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