OWC Has First Fully Mac & PC Supported Bootable PCIe SSD

[tecmo34]

Other World Computing has introduced the OWC Mercury Accelsior, the industry’s first both Mac-bootable and PC-bootable, fully supported PCIe SSD card.

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[dgingeri]

It'd be cheaper to get an enterprise level raid controller with 512MB of cache and a couple regular SSDs, and get more available ports, and probably better performance.

 

[drwho1]

saw this on another site, looks promising, but this technology is still in its infancy.
still I like to watch this technology mature.

 

[drwho1]

here is the review: http://thessdreview.com/latest-buzz/owc-releases-first-fully-bootable-pcie-ssd-for-mac-and-pc/

 

[halcyon]

Nice. One of these may find a way into my 2010 Mac Pro and replace the 2 x 120GB Vertex2's in software RAID 0. Needed? No, I'll check, but pretty sure...no...not needed. ...but it my get me slightly closer to getting things done yesterday.

 

[kaisellgren]

Nice to see bootable PCI-E SSDs. We are pretty much limited by SATA 3 at this point, so with PCI-E we can pass that limit... at least to some extent.

 

[halcyon]

The idea that this is simply usable in both Macs and PCs almost makes me HAVE to have it. ...at least that's what I'll be telling myself.

 

[hannibal]

This is actually guite cheap for PCI-E ssd... Maybe we will see some competition allso in this segment soon?

 

[thebigt42]

[citation][nom]amdfreak[/nom]Would be great if OWC would be the first to introduce the hardware support for RAID over PCI-E SSDs[/citation]
Still waiting on Super Talent's Raid 0 with 4 drive card
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/RAIDDrive-upStream-PCIe-SSD-SSD-SandForce,14974.html

 

[__-_-_-__]

actually this is very reasonable priced (concerning pci-e ssd's ofc...)

 

[halcyon]

This looks like it performs very similarly to a RevoDrive 3

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]dgingeri[/nom]It'd be cheaper to get an enterprise level raid controller with 512MB of cache and a couple regular SSDs, and get more available ports, and probably better performance.[/citation]

not by much, if at all cheaper, at those price points.

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]amdfreak[/nom]Would be great if OWC would be the first to introduce the hardware support for RAID over PCI-E SSDs[/citation]
I don't follow. OCZ's RevoDrives have hardware RAID 0...or did I misunderstand what you're posting?

 

[WyomingKnott]

Funny. The 120 GB model is only 1/3 more expensive than the 128 GB SSD I bought for my machine. Of course, I bought it quite a while ago...