PCIe SSDz

[ballz0r]

I was going to buy a couple of ssdz for my 4way rig when I saw this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227498

700mb/s!!!! Fuck me

the price of this 256 mb drive is comparable to two 128s and it would be a good way to use on of the 4way's pcie slots.

Just thought I'd ask you guys for opions before pushing the button.

[ablatman]

One thing to keep in mind is the bandwidth it uses; make sure you fully consider how you're going to mount all your graphics cards and this to ensure maximum throughput to all cards.

[Jtrain]

These guys do a pretty good review of the drive if you are interested
http://hothardware.com/Articles/OCZ-ZDrive-m84-PCIExpress-SSD-Review/?page=1

[Hyper Cool]

Insanity has a new name 256GB SSD. Dude you must be bleeding chips on this one to fork $1G to the egg.

[Hyper Cool]

I would say if I had the coin. I would drop 2 of these in the ol wire closet.

http://www.ramsan.com/products/ramsan-620.htm

[Hondacity]

pcie ssd...is that bootable?

[Hyper Cool]

Not sure. Mostly I have seen these in SAN enclosures for the super IT budgeted trying to push the real time factor up by a thousand. You know the types doing most real-time micro-second stock trading. Most of us Earthly IT folk can not see spending $64K on a 5 TB, no matter how fast and wide the access is.

[slpdLoad]

Pretty cool. I'd rather have a conventional RAID card + SSDs, but I can't find anything wrong with this.

If you can boot from PCI(e) RAID cards, I don't see how this is different.

[ballz0r]

Pretty cool. I'd rather have a conventional RAID card + SSDs, but I can't find anything wrong with this.

If you can boot from PCI(e) RAID cards, I don't see how this is different.

from what i can tell its is just a raid card with SSDs built in

and yes its bootable

[dingdong555]

These look fast! Check out the specs, not sure on the price though :\

http://www.fusionio.com/products/iodriveduo/

[ballz0r]

These look fast! Check out the specs, not sure on the price though :\

http://www.fusionio.com/products/iodriveduo/

woah.... the fusion-io octal drive hit 1TB/s!!!

http://www.fusionio.com/case-studies/octal-study.pdf

[BDW88]

Don't even ask the prices on those Drives from Fusion, I've already checked..:eek:

Some guy on TPU was selling them for $16k awhile back.

[Kuro]

Fusion have brought out some cheaper ones on Amazon i think Fusion-io Extreme i think they are called

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%22Fusion-io+80GB%22&x=0&y=0

[ND40oz]

The Fusion-IO wasn't bootable when it was released, they said they were going to release new firmware to make it bootable, not sure if it's happened. The extreme uses SLC, versus the Z-Drives M84 using MLC. OCZ has a version that uses SLC too, it's a bit faster.

[mpolter]

Fusion-io still isn't bootable. I am patiently awaiting my Z-Drive for evaluation.

--MikeP

[ballz0r]

ferkin quick... but nothing about real world performance

http://it-review.net/article/hardware/hdd/OCZ_Z_drive_review&1