Next-Gen SandForce Controller Seen on OCZ SSD

[exfileme]

OCZ's Vertex 3 Pro, seen at CES 2011, was shown to have sustained read speeds of 550 MB/s and sustained write speeds of 525 MB/s. Kapow!!

Next-Gen SandForce Controller Seen on OCZ SSD : Read more

 

[dragonfang18]

That's Fast! WOWOW WEE WAA!

 

[kcorp2003]

Truly remarkable.

 

[dogman_1234]

Hopefully it is better than OCD's memory!

 

[milktea]

Wow, the Z-Drive is close to PC-133 SDRAM speed.

 

[eklipz330]

OMG i totally wrote about this in the revodrive x2 feature!

AND IT REALLY IS FREAKIN FAST HOLY COW

 

[phosun3000]

Cost? About how much? Cost?

 

[scook9]

Might just be me....but those 4k IOPS are pretty low......I have raid 0 64GB SF-1222 drives right now and they completely destroy that. And that setup only cost me $200

 

[scook9]

And I should add that RAID does not boost 4k numbers, so I would get the same out of a single drive for $100 (smallest stripe size is 4k size so no benefit)

 

[danwat1234]

WOW! Look at the 4K!!!! About TWICE what the Intel G2 can do. Awe some.

It looks like it would almost saturate the SATA II bus even with highly random I/O!

 

[joelmartinez]

Will be purchasing intel's next-gen ssd or the vertex 3 pro unless the corsairs and marvels are really good, and cheap

 

[eddieroolz]

I swear with the rate we're going soon even SATA3 will be obsolete. The pace the engineers are progressing at is amazing.

 

[kingnoobe]

Ya, if only prices would follow suit.

 

[dimar]

All netbooks should come as Windows system drive, using this SSD, in mini PCI express form :lol:

 

[cmartin011]

how about intel hooking the lightspeed crap to it if sata3 is an issue?

 

[bildo123]

[citation][nom]milktea[/nom]Wow, the Z-Drive is close to PC-133 SDRAM speed.[/citation]

Just without the whole volatile issue deal, issue, thing, ya...

Anyways, now is the time, we got the sizes and the speeds right, just time for the prices to get in tune, hopefully close to that nice $1/GB point.

 

[cushgod]

The progress of this tech will continue at this speed until we get closer to current ram speeds. (Limit of silicon). Old HDD have mechaincal limit. Now SSD are limited by nothing, except silicon. Instant reboots, loading, and file transfer! yeaaahh

 

[cushgod]

SSD's are so much less complicated then mechanical HDD. So cost should drop below mechanical HDD price. dont go for 1 a GB, ask for 10cent/GB!

 

[razor512]

in terms of raw materials, an SSD is much cheaper, those companies can easily charge $100 for a 500GB+ ssd and still make a good profit. They just charge crazy prices because it is more profitable kinda like charging $500 for a videocard that cost the same amount to make as as the mid range version of the same card (same GPU core just locked down and a few other limitations)

 

[hjohn06]

The cost of research and development have to be factored in. If you threw down however many millions of dollars it cost to do the the R&D, I'm sure they would be more than happy to sell it to you at the cost of the material.

 

[rrplay]

Going to be keeping a watch on this looks blazing fast !
and what $$ point is going to be competitive.

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]mayankleoboy1[/nom]thats blazing fast. just put 4 of these puppies in a raid 0[/citation]
two works just fine, there is to much room for error and problems if you decide to use 4 of them

 

[henydiah]

i wondering OCZ stop SSD like a.. RAM hmm seem problem RMA?

 

[dark_lord69]

This is why I haven't purchased an SSD yet...
Prices are still a bit steep.
And they just keep getting faster and faster.

 

[youssef 2010]

of course they don't need to use the next gen Sandforce controllers on their Z-Drive R3 just look at those speeds.