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OK, so OCZ had a product it will be releasing in the future that has (upgradable) SSD modules on a PCI-Express card. This will be bootable. More potential for future SSD chips since PCI-Express has a higher bandwidth than SATA. But it can hit the speeds it says because it does RAID on the card. I wonder if you could do software RAID on 2 of these...
But the idea of chips instead of a drive is awesome. Wouldn't it be cool if we had storeage chips (what is inside SSDs). Just plug them into separate slots on the motherboard next to the RAM for storage. Except instead of sticks of 2, 4 and 8GB they could total 2TB.
Top speed is 1.4GB/s for the top OCZ card.
Burst speeds for Intel's X25-M SSD are 250MB/s.
DDR RAM peak rate is 1.6GB/s. So the OCZ card is basically as fast as RAM...
You may remember Gigabytes i-Ram, it can only transfer up to 150MB/s because it uses plain SATA (PCI connection for power only). The RAM can talk with the controller chip on the card up to 1.6GB/s but that rate can't hit the PC because it talks via SATA.
And the RAM cards can only hold a few GB for storage unlike SSDs or the OCZ card.
But the idea of chips instead of a drive is awesome. Wouldn't it be cool if we had storeage chips (what is inside SSDs). Just plug them into separate slots on the motherboard next to the RAM for storage. Except instead of sticks of 2, 4 and 8GB they could total 2TB.
Top speed is 1.4GB/s for the top OCZ card.
Burst speeds for Intel's X25-M SSD are 250MB/s.
DDR RAM peak rate is 1.6GB/s. So the OCZ card is basically as fast as RAM...
You may remember Gigabytes i-Ram, it can only transfer up to 150MB/s because it uses plain SATA (PCI connection for power only). The RAM can talk with the controller chip on the card up to 1.6GB/s but that rate can't hit the PC because it talks via SATA.
And the RAM cards can only hold a few GB for storage unlike SSDs or the OCZ card.