OCZ shows a PCI-E 8x 1TB SSD

[m^2]

It's pretty cool, I like it, but when I don't think many people will have room for it when you have CFX/SLI, Sound Cards and a Raid Card installed.

Indeed, it's bigger then we'd like, but:
-It's not only for gamers
-RAID card? I can easily see a high end using this as the only storage device. 1 SI TB is enough for great majority of users.

[Katanai]

-RAID card? I can easily see a high end using this as the only storage device. 1 SI TB is enough for great majority of users.

We don't know if it's bootable. My guess is, it's not. So it couldn't work alone.

Still, I would love to have one of these piggies.

[DFI pit bull]

Picture of the size of the card :P

Looks like a brick

[m^2]

Why do you think it's not?
It's most likely just a raid controller + 4 Vertexes.

[Zaskar]

Can you boot from it?

[clonez]

those speeds cant be the real thing (must be cache)...
otherwise they would have put another 0 behind that price tag

so the big ssd + for speeds is gone, move on to normal hard drives

[Taylor01]

Welcome to the future! Can I smell another component for my loop, a nice wb for would help with space issues! Come on guys you know you were thinking iy too. LOL! It's sexy nerd :banana::banana::banana::banana: at it's finest!

[alfaunits]

those speeds cant be the real thing (must be cache)...
otherwise they would have put another 0 behind that price tag

4x SSD can achieve those speeds, I think the controller is limiting it rather than the drives.
And that's sequential, so not a big thing really. Were it random - then they'd put another 0 to the price tag

[Jazz_Data]

You can boot off any decent raid controller, so I don't see why not with this product... You will need f6 drivers for xp (or slipstream) or a driver cd for vista's installation...

[ArcticOC]

Can you boot from it?

Yes you can boot from it, most RAID-controllers let you..

Regarding the OCZ product, you can make a much better one your self.. it just takes 4 x Intel X25-E, an Areca 1680 controller and some duct tape.

This mod is quite easy.. stack two Intel X25-E on top and two X25-E on the bottom of the Areca 1680 RAID-card. To finish off, connect the SSD`s and controller-card by some really short sata-cable`s and wrap som ductape around the whole ting.. be really thorugh, the disks should be thight and nicely attached to the controller-card!!!

[Levish]

people who can afford x25-e's can probably afford a 50-75$ 5.25" bay device to mount four of them nicely

[Zaskar]

Yes you can boot from it, most RAID-controllers let you..

Regarding the OCZ product, you can make a much better one your self.. it just takes 4 x Intel X25-E, an Areca 1680 controller and some duct tape.

This mod is quite easy.. stack two Intel X25-E on top and two X25-E on the bottom of the Areca 1680 RAID-card. To finish off, connect the SSD`s and controller-card by some really short sata-cable`s and wrap som ductape around the whole ting.. be really thorugh, the disks should be thight and nicely attached to the controller-card!!!

Ahh thats all it is, I just assumed it was a cheeper FusionIO like device (which still currently doesn't allow booting from)

[m^2]

ArcticOC, where can I buy X25-E with 256 SI GB for ($1500-controller)/4 each?

[Praz]

Yes you can boot from it, most RAID-controllers let you..

Regarding the OCZ product, you can make a much better one your self.. it just takes 4 x Intel X25-E, an Areca 1680 controller and some duct tape.

This mod is quite easy.. stack two Intel X25-E on top and two X25-E on the bottom of the Areca 1680 RAID-card. To finish off, connect the SSD`s and controller-card by some really short sata-cable`s and wrap som ductape around the whole ting.. be really thorugh, the disks should be thight and nicely attached to the controller-card!!!

Intel X25-E - $420.00 each.
Areca 1680 - $750.00.
Duck tape - $4.00.
Total - $2434.00 for 128GB.

lol. Hardware isn't the only thing xtreme around here.

[RGone]

Hardware isn't the only thing xtreme around here.

Man you said a mouthfull there. About 1/10 the capacity for about $900.00 more.
Right on target for DIY.

[Rhys]

http://techreport.com/articles.x/16291/10
The above is a review of 4x x25-e in raid.

From what I can make out performance isn't much better, has ALLOT more I/O's, but how many I/O's do you need to play Crysis?

Also it would cost about $1827.08 + cost of raid controller for 128GB
as opposed to $1500 for 1TB.

What am I thinking? Screw common sense I have a pea brain, hand over those Intel's now please!

[deathman20]

it's not baldly priced for size.

Thats cheap for that size. Man after seeing 256Gigs for $500+ basically it makes the 256Gigs for $375 and a free controller card.

[ArcticOC]

Hardware isn't the only thing xtreme around here.

Man you said a mouthfull there. About 1/10 the capacity for about $900.00 more.
Right on target for DIY.

Hey..money is not an issue What about the joy of DIY`ing?!
..and with that roll of duct tape you should be able to start serial production!

But anyways, the OCZ product is cheap when you compare the GB/$ ratio. And with that free raid-controller you get on the purchase it`s really a bargain

But I wont call this innovation, like I said before, it`s just a plain raid-controller with 4 perfecly normal SSD strapped on it.. nothing more and nothing less!

[Xphobe]

Hey..money is not an issue What about the joy of DIY`ing?!
..and with that roll of duct tape you should be able to start serial production!

But anyways, the OCZ product is cheap when you compare the GB/$ ratio. And with that free raid-controller you get on the purchase it`s really a bargain

But I wont call this innovation, like I said before, it`s just a plain raid-controller with 4 perfecly normal SSD strapped on it.. nothing more and nothing less!

The innovation is the means for high capacity and low cost, something never seen before with SSDs as of yet. It is only $1.50 a gig with extreme performance, which makes it the first of its kind. I am sure they will eventually also make a 480gb version (120x4) and would cost in the range of $800, which would then be in almost everyones price range. I am very glad they are making an IO option for bootable storage with great prices (unlike the IOFusion), and unlike the IOFusion, OCZ has the means to push this product out the door as fast as possible.

[Levish]

Ahh thats all it is, I just assumed it was a cheeper FusionIO like device (which still currently doesn't allow booting from)

FusionIO is a controller + onboard chips, only difference is theorized that this OCZ device has the chips in hard disk format connected like traditional hard drives (over sata interface instead of the controller directly accessing the chips).

FusionIO has higher potential IOPs since there's no intermediary SATA interface between the controller and the NAND, but there are many factors at play that can affect this.

Theoretically there's no reason FusionIO can't be bootable other than the dev's not thinking its important.

I personally side with them, I don't need my OS to boot from this drive and would much rather use "cheap" SAS/SCSI/SATA drives for bulky OS stuff and put only stuff that needs the IO on it.

[Katanai]

Ahh thats all it is, I just assumed it was a cheeper FusionIO like device (which still currently doesn't allow booting from)

Yup. Me too.

[Mechromancer]

Nowhere can you get FOUR 256GB SSDs + 256mb RAID controller card (capable of handling all the bandwidth) for under $1500! This thing is truly a bargain for what you get. I have 4x30GB OCZ Solid Series SSDs and an ARC-1210 (maxes at 500mb/s) that cost me $600 for 120GB@350-400mb/s sustained. Also unlike the FusionIO device, this OCZ drive will allow booting from it!

[HuffPCair]

So this mean Sata is going to slowly go away???

[XS Janus]

Not so slowly...

[alfaunits]

Any ETA on this baby?