16 X25-E's in RAID0 ~ 3.4GB/s

[Taipan™]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-6gb-raid,2388-2.html


If someone would like to chip in and buy me this array I would give you a cookie

So for comparison between read speeds. Your HDD probably does around 60-110MB/s and costs $US50-200 for 1TB

This array does ~3400MB/s for ~1TB and costs 16 x $US950 SSD's + 2 x $US550 RAID0 Controllers = $US16,300

YAYA for Price vs Performance. However prices will go down and capacities will increase. So less then 3 years and noisy hot hard drives will be a thing of the past to the average consumer.

[WaTy™]

Nice picture!

[S.S.NZ]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-6gb-raid,2388-2.html


If someone would like to chip in and buy me this array I would give you a cookie

So for comparison between read speeds. Your HDD probably does around 60-110MB/s and costs $US50-200 for 1TB

This array does ~3400MB/s for ~1TB and costs 16 x $US950 SSD's + 2 x $US550 RAID0 Controllers = $US16,300

YAYA for Price vs Performance. However prices will go down and capacities will increase. So less then 3 years and noisy hot hard drives will be a thing of the past to the average consumer.

LoL

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[MrMxyzptlk]

Heh.

I was wondering just HOW you'd get that kind of transfer speed on a current, mainstream PC, and then remembered those rates should be possible with the new PCI Express 2.0 and SAS/600 standards due out later this year....

So it's not all for naught then, I guess!

T'would be nice for fast-flash drive backups, but then... they'd be limited by the speed of the data coming off your old-fashioned "normal" hard drive! 

[Taipan™]

OCZ are going to release a cheaper SLC SSD called the Agility EX. Will be 64GB+ and a atleast 1/2 the price of the X25-E SSD. It gets really tempting to get one, but still the prices are to high to justify the performance gain for a personal computer.