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5th March 2009, 21:01 | #1 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| OCZ Z-Drive 1000GB SSD Performance Preview at Cebit OCZ will be launching an SSD based product later this year which promises never before seen performance, 600mb/s read and up to 500mb/s write will not be out of the ordinary. We got a chance to do a few performance tests at Cebit this year where they were demoing a 1000Gb version. http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=911
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5th March 2009, 21:15 | #2 |
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| Insane! That thing is larger than even the largest GPUs. |
5th March 2009, 21:18 | #3 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| It won't fit in mid-size cases, unless you hack the casing, but at that price point you should be able to afford a nice large case too
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5th March 2009, 22:34 | #4 |
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| Is it even bootable? Was the OS running off of the drive? The last PCIe SSD configurations I heard about were not capable of booting from. |
6th March 2009, 00:58 | #5 |
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| It's like booting / running windows from a raid array from a plug in card
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6th March 2009, 01:52 | #6 |
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| Yes, but as I recall the first Fusion-io card was the same thing, but could not be used as a bootable drive due to some reason or another. They said future models would have the problem solved. |
6th March 2009, 07:52 | #7 |
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| You do need a driver for it to be bootable, but other than that it should work. The one on display was not a boot drive though. |
6th March 2009, 08:31 | #8 |
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| it was not used as the boot drive so you could do write tests on it, reformat it with different stripe size etc... it's perfectly bootable, it's after all a Highpoint Rocketraid PCIe card where you hook a few drives up to. with 8xSATA drives you can get similar speeds of 750mb/s in HDTach http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/.../index_2.shtml during Windows setup hit F6 when asked and provide a driver disk and you're good to go
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7th March 2009, 07:33 | #9 |
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| yup jmke is absolutely right on this, all you need to do is setup BIOS to boot from PCIE RAID card |
10th March 2009, 18:25 | #10 |
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| Now, THAT is the ultimate OS drive (not bloody Vertex...) |
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