why is there no desktop SSD?

[Jacob Bowerman]

ok so i know a 2.5" SSD will work and fit into a desktop BUT
why is there very few 3.5" SSD's?
ok so most ssd's pump out around 500mb/s give or take.
i am to believe that an SSD is just a giant RAID 0 of all the chips.

ok... so if they made 3.5" SSD's wouldn't that mean there would be more chips which means more storage and speed.

E.G
say if you could have multiple layers of chips. if i recall correctly the biggest ssd at the moment is 1tb.

could you chuck 2 of these 1tb boards in a 3.5" case to get 2tb. which would also double the speed to 1gb/s?

 

[smackers_12]

You dont need it to be that big. And the speed is limited by the sata 3 bus not the speed of the ssd. There are 3.5 ssds but they are really expensive and unnecessary. You don't need a 2tb ssd for a consumer and the ones that are available can be used in commercial applications.

 

[Jacob Bowerman]

You dont need it to be that big. And the speed is limited by the sata 3 bus not the speed of the ssd. There are 3.5 ssds but they are really expensive and unnecessary. You don't need a 2tb ssd for a consumer and the ones that are available can be used in commercial applications.

so in other words.. its not practical

and i always thought the sata 3 bus was capable of 6gb/s

 

[smackers_12]

You dont need it to be that big. And the speed is limited by the sata 3 bus not the speed of the ssd. There are 3.5 ssds but they are really expensive and unnecessary. You don't need a 2tb ssd for a consumer and the ones that are available can be used in commercial applications.

so in other words.. its not practical

and i always thought the sata 3 bus was capable of 6gb/s

6 gigabit per second only supports 500MB/s read and write speeds. So current high end ssds saturate the bus

 

[Jacob Bowerman]

You dont need it to be that big. And the speed is limited by the sata 3 bus not the speed of the ssd. There are 3.5 ssds but they are really expensive and unnecessary. You don't need a 2tb ssd for a consumer and the ones that are available can be used in commercial applications.

so in other words.. its not practical

and i always thought the sata 3 bus was capable of 6gb/s

6 gigabit per second only supports 500MB/s read and write speeds. So current high end ssds saturate the bus

some kind of double sata output would be good.
put 2 SSD's on 1 casing. 1 power input. 2 sata outputs. then setup some kind of RAID 0 and you get 1GB/S or X amount of ssd's in 1 casing. for anyone who needs 1gb/s+

 

[smackers_12]

You dont need it to be that big. And the speed is limited by the sata 3 bus not the speed of the ssd. There are 3.5 ssds but they are really expensive and unnecessary. You don't need a 2tb ssd for a consumer and the ones that are available can be used in commercial applications.

so in other words.. its not practical

and i always thought the sata 3 bus was capable of 6gb/s

6 gigabit per second only supports 500MB/s read and write speeds. So current high end ssds saturate the bus

some kind of double sata output would be good.
put 2 SSD's on 1 casing. 1 power input. 2 sata outputs. then setup some kind of RAID 0 and you get 1GB/S or X amount of ssd's in 1 casing. for anyone who needs 1gb/s+

If you need that much bandwidth there are plenty of options available like running over the pci bus or using the SAS interface. SATA is more of a consumer level bus

 

[USAFRet]

some kind of double sata output would be good.
put 2 SSD's on 1 casing. 1 power input. 2 sata outputs. then setup some kind of RAID 0 and you get 1GB/S or X amount of ssd's in 1 casing. for anyone who needs 1gb/s+

That's called a 1TB SSD instead of 2 x 512GB SSD's.

 

[Jacob Bowerman]

some kind of double sata output would be good.
put 2 SSD's on 1 casing. 1 power input. 2 sata outputs. then setup some kind of RAID 0 and you get 1GB/S or X amount of ssd's in 1 casing. for anyone who needs 1gb/s+

That's called a 1TB SSD instead of 2 x 512GB SSD's.

yes but a 1tb ssd would only run at 500mb/s where as if you put 2 ssds in one casing. both running at 500mb/s then you would get 1gb/s. i don't see why anyone would need 1gb/s but its just a thought

 

[USAFRet]

some kind of double sata output would be good.
put 2 SSD's on 1 casing. 1 power input. 2 sata outputs. then setup some kind of RAID 0 and you get 1GB/S or X amount of ssd's in 1 casing. for anyone who needs 1gb/s+

That's called a 1TB SSD instead of 2 x 512GB SSD's.

yes but a 1tb ssd would only run at 500mb/s where as if you put 2 ssds in one casing. both running at 500mb/s then you would get 1gb/s. i don't see why anyone would need 1gb/s but its just a thought

It would still go through the same SATA bus.

 

[smackers_12]

some kind of double sata output would be good.
put 2 SSD's on 1 casing. 1 power input. 2 sata outputs. then setup some kind of RAID 0 and you get 1GB/S or X amount of ssd's in 1 casing. for anyone who needs 1gb/s+

That's called a 1TB SSD instead of 2 x 512GB SSD's.

yes but a 1tb ssd would only run at 500mb/s where as if you put 2 ssds in one casing. both running at 500mb/s then you would get 1gb/s. i don't see why anyone would need 1gb/s but its just a thought

It would still go through the same SATA bus.

I think hes saying two separate 500gb ssds in one case with two sata connections You can do that with duct tape its not hard to tape two ssds together. All it does is add more points of faliure