RealSSD P320h— PCIe

**Ao1** · 06-06-2011, 12:22 PM

RealSSD P320h—Phenomenal PCIe

"Our low-latency, high-IOPs RealSSD™ P320h drive is a real overachiever, providing the highest throughput in the industry, combined with extended endurance, exceptional reliability, and remarkable power efficiency. It’s the ultimate solution for optimizing heavy-duty applications, from enterprise servers to mobile data streaming, and it’s designed to outpace, outperform, and outlast every other SSD currently on the market"

Performance: Up to 750,000 READ IOPs and sequential speeds up to 3 GB/s.
Endurance: Up to 50 petabytes of drive life.
Efficiency: 25W active power use means up to 30,000 READ IOPs per watt.
Integrated design: We custom-designed the controller to work specifically with our own SLC NAND.

Capacity* 350GB, 700GB

Interface PCIe (Gen 2-compliant) x4, x8

Sequential READ/WRITE up to 3 GB/s (128KB transfer size, preconditioned)

Random READ/WRITE up to 750,000/341,000 IOPs (4KB transfer size, preconditioned)

Latency <50µs

Active Power Consumption 25W max

Idle Power Consumption 6.1mW

MTBF (mean time between failures) 2 million device hours

Operating Temp Commercial (0°C to +70°C)

What type of NAND is used in the P320h drive?The P320h drive uses Micron’s 34nm SLC ONFI 2.1 NAND Flash.What is Micron’s RAIN Technology?RAIN (redundant array of independent NAND) is essentially a classic data-protection scheme organized on the NAND devices of some models of Micron’s enterprise-class solid state drives. RAIN is a parity-protection scheme that helps ensure robust lifetime wear leveling and data protection similar to the data protection and redundancy found in RAID (redundant array of independent disks) systems.

http://www.micron.com/products/solid..._pcie_ssd.html

**zalbard** · 06-06-2011, 12:30 PM

Yep, read about it today. Targeting enterprise sector and high capacities will definitely make it very expensive, though.

But it'd be interesting to see the performance numbers and compare it to, for example, ioXtreme.

Edit: added an extra word in italics to make myself clear.

**Ao1** · 06-06-2011, 12:33 PM

If you have to ask the price you can't afford it

**zalbard** · 06-06-2011, 12:41 PM

I'm not asking, I know I can't!

**Ao1** · 06-06-2011, 01:01 PM

Price rumor = US$16/GB.

According to Micron, the 700GB drive is able to write 28 terabytes of data every day for five years.

**Computurd** · 06-06-2011, 01:02 PM

ROFLMAo! it definitely will be UBER expensive. wonder about the speed though...God i would kill to test one

**zalbard** · 06-06-2011, 01:03 PM

Did someone say group buy?!

**Anvil** · 06-06-2011, 01:11 PM

Maybe not as exciting but it looks to be cheaper
Intel PCIe comes in Q4 2011 according to fudzilla

Link

"It’s been a while since Intel updated its SLC SSD roadmap and the good old X25-E is the only SLC solution based on Intel NAND. It's based on 50nm technology and, in case you didn't know, SLC stands for Single layer cell - faster than MLC (multi layer) but also dramatically more expensive.

Intel plans to introduce a new drive codenamed Ramsdale in 200GB and 400GB size and this new drive is based on new 34nm SLC process. This will be the first Intel’s drive for PCIe buss as the X25-E relies on the quite obsolete SATA 3GB/s.

This drive clearly tops the Lydonville MLC offering that comes in 300GB, 200GB and 100GB and SATA 3Gb/s. We still don’t know any projections of Ramsdale speeds but you can imagine that they will match or overcome the fastest drives you can buy today. Note however that, since they are intended for server market, they won’t come cheap."