OCZ to come out with new VERTEX SSD,S equiped with 64MB OF CACHE starting at $129

[XS Janus]

I don't think Pentium II had sata ports...





j/k

[FoxRacR17]

I don't think Pentium II had sata ports...





j/k

Mine does

haha

[fhpchris]

OCZ already has a working prototype for SATA 3 with even better speed specs. (2xVertex)

They need to make one with a SAS interface.

[FoxRacR17]

They need to make one with a SAS interface.

ohhhhhh that would be nice

[Oats]

There were rumors of a PCI-express drive too. I want to jump in and buy some SSDs but it seems like new/better products are coming out every month.

[LuckyNV]

Yep, its even worse than other computer parts (CPUs and GFX) where there are quite big improvements every half either in performance or price (or both)
I'll probably jump on when its about £1 for 1GB but I want one now damnit, I think I may even take a 128GB Titan if I can find it in UK

[GNU]

Hm I'm between Intel X25-E and OCZ Vertex. It will take some time to choose the right product.

[Brahmzy]

it yourself... It is already in the works but WD is having problems trying to keep the drives quiet.. They scream to loud at the moment..

LINKS
bit-tech.net
engadget
cnet

Sorry, don't buy it. Enterprise leads the storage technologies. There aren't any 20K RPM drives slated in RD for Enterprise. We've been stuck at 15K for a long time now, many, many engineers say that is the theoritical limit for mechanical drives.... Google it.

Raptors would go 15K long before 20K. I say again, a 20K Raptor ain't happenin'.

[fhpchris]

There were rumors of a PCI-express drive too. I want to jump in and buy some SSDs but it seems like new/better products are coming out every month.

Could be good, but it will be more expensive than sas. I also hope that in the future we will see more mobos with onboard sas like some of the new asus intel boards.

[XS Janus]

What about FusionIO's ioExtreme?
Sub $1000 Flash card...
Any news about that?

[jcool]

As of today, the Apex drives are finally in stock across retailers in Germany, but no sign of the Vertex whatsoever.

[RealTelstar]

As of today, the Apex drives are finally in stock across retailers in Germany, but no sign of the Vertex whatsoever.

Thank you, jcool.

[alfaunits]

As of today, the Apex drives are finally in stock across retailers in Germany, but no sign of the Vertex whatsoever.

How about @ MindFactory? They actually listed them as in stock for ove a month now, so I'm suspicious, but nonetheless...
(I didn't care to check because they don't ship to my country )

[jcool]

I got that info this morning directly from my Distributor (Wave) which means Alternate and Mix computer will have it soon (they share the same logistics). I could have the 60GB or 120GB here with me tomorrow if I wanted to.. but I am waiting on the Vertex.

As to Mindfactory, no idea really. But if they list something as in stock they usually have it.

[F@32]

It is in the works for 2009 as Vertex 2 which is internal RAID-0 with 4 controllers pushing 550mb with reads and 480mb with writes.

I'll upgrade to it after Vertex

550MB/s read

OCZ has shown us the prototypes of Vertex 2, their next generation SSD, and the company's CEO Ryan Peterson and EVP and Chief Marketing officer Alex Mei were kind enough to show us a first glimpse of the drive's performance.

The drive is insanely fast as this internal quad raid drive can write at up to 480MB/s and read around 550MB/s, depending on the size of the files.

This is specially the case with big files and in reality at this speed you might copy a 20GB file in just 41.66 seconds, and we are sure that video editing guys are going to love these numbers. In order to achieve thee speeds you will have to get to SATA 3.0, as SATA 2.0 is maxed out at 300MB/s per device. SATA 3.0 on the other hand gets you all the way to 750GB/s which will be enough even for Vertex 2.

This drive will come the market in late Q1 2009 and we reckon it will be ready for Cebit. Here is how it looks in action.

I think what some company needs to do (be it OCZ or a WD Raptor SSD) is finally make a "desktop grade" SSD in a 3.5" chassis that fits into regular desktop computers. And instead of having a type of 2-drive RAID0 internally, set it up as a 4-drive RAID0 (which you *could* do since you have more space in the 3.5" chassis) and have it use 2 SATA connections to run instead of 1. That way you would be able to get somewhere around 450MBps read speeds, super fast access times, and have a lot of storage space(for a SSD anyway). Some might complain about it taking up 2 ports, but this wouldn't be a drive for regular users anyway, it is for special people who pay lots of money for high performance, who cares if you have to use 2 ports if it gives some pretty insane performance numbers?

And don't tell me you cant fit another connection on the back of the drive, they fit a power and data connection on a 2.5" chassis, you can easily fit another data connection in a whole extra inch.

[Griff805]

Hmm... wonder why they didn't show the smaller read/writes-

[Brahmzy]

Hmm... wonder why they didn't show the smaller read/writes-

Exactly...

[F@32]

Hmm... wonder why they didn't show the smaller read/writes-

Because you're clouding issue with facts PR like big and round 550 number.

As always, I'd trust fellow XS'ers with actual performance numbers over any manufacturers...

[XS Janus]

Because you're clouding issue with facts PR like big and round 550 number.

As always, I'd trust fellow XS'ers with actual performance numbers over any manufacturers...

+1 on both points.

[Halk]

There were rumors of a PCI-express drive too. I want to jump in and buy some SSDs but it seems like new/better products are coming out every month.

Since the Intel drives are super fast it's a question of what price point do you jump in on. Vertex should bring that price point down - when they finally arrive.

Personally I'm going for 4 Vertex 30GB in RAID0 and will probably buy a 5805 to run them on. That's not cheap, but it's the price point I've pulled the trigger at.

I can't see any real advantage going much above 500MB/sec in maximum transfer speed. The advantages are in smoothing out the lower performing areas, and so far only Intel, or expensive h/w RAID has that. Perhaps with a couple of Vertex in RAID0 we'll see a miles cheaper option.

PCIe will bring the price down significantly since it'll wipe out the need for expensive h/w RAID controllers, and of course the price of SSDs is falling all the time.

So $1000 buys amazing speed right now, perhaps in a year it'll be $200.

[Freonor]

This is taking too long! We need Vertex and we need it now!

[flopper]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=14257

reviews coming soon from anandtech

[Lu(ky]

So what Vertex size are you guys looking to buy? 30GB, 60GB or the 120GB? I was thinking of 4 x 30GB in a raid...

[Justifire]

So what Vertex size are you guys looking to buy? 30GB, 60GB or the 120GB? I was thinking of 4 x 30GB in a raid...

4 x 30gb raid 0 and 120 gb for laptop

[jc99]

So what Vertex size are you guys looking to buy? 30GB, 60GB or the 120GB? I was thinking of 4 x 30GB in a raid...

I'd be happy with a 60gb drive for OS/games if they don't stutter and if they ever come out anytime soon.