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Nobody mentions OCZ? "And right now, they're also wallet-bustingly expensive, even for enterprise customers." Check the revodrive - 480GB PCI-E drive, bootabl
by jbooth 16y ago
Nobody mentions OCZ?
"And right now, they're also wallet-bustingly expensive, even for enterprise customers."
Check the revodrive - 480GB PCI-E drive, bootable, costs the same amount as a 512GB standard SSD with the SATA bottleneck.
- bconway 16y agoThe article mentions it in the third paragraph: If you want to go slower, smaller, and cheaper, you can pick up a consumer-grade, 80GB OCZ PCIe SSD card from Amazon for $300 and change, but you'll get only 540MB/s read and 450MB/s write.
- jbooth 16y agoWell, they have higher-end options too that go to 1.4GB/s, they're pricier but still way cheaper than fusionio -- roughly comparable to 1.25X the price per GB of a 2.5" drive for 5-10X the bandwidth.
- yread 16y agoonly the Revodrive x2 is bootable http://semiaccurate.com/2010/10/28/ocz-announces-revodrive-x2/ http://semiaccurate.com/2010/10/28/ocz-announces-revodrive-x...
- wmf 16y agoThose are "fake" PCIe SSDs (really just a bunch of SATA SSDs attached to a RAID controller), not "native" which are theoretically supposed to be cheaper.
- jbooth 16y agoYeah, but they work and they give you the throughput. Engineering smarts, why build an expensive SSD->PCIE component when you can buy cheapo 4xSSD->RAID->PCIE existing parts and slap them on the card?