Substantially as good performance can be achieved with a software product called MFT from www.easyco.com using inexpensive MLC chips.

The real problem is caused by the legacy OS like Windows Vista, XP, and Applications.

See this discussion:

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&dayspru...

under a 1000 dollars, for 80GB? That is a high premium for speed.

Page me when it's 200$ for 200gb, then you might have a product we can afford and has some use.
(OS, favourite 5 games, swap file perhaps)

I read that you can't boot your OS using this thing. Is that true?

1x? 16x? What slot does it use?

And how many of these can you stuff into one system? Can you RAID them?

Because you know those l33t gamers won't care about this unless they can RAID it and it won't block one of their 3 x16 slots for their video cards.

I just like typing l33t.

I've been eyeing the Acard ram disk:

http://www.acard.com/english/fb01-product.jsp?idno_no=270&prod_no=A...9010&type1_title=%20Solid%20State%20Drive&type1_...[com]

Looks like this will be available soon.

These are some really nice numbers, but I would rather see two cheaper drives integrated into an internal stripped array. Maybe with duel controllers. I saw a review of some Seagate ST drives in raid when they were first launched. The read performance was out of this world. I'd even be willing to go as far as to require two SATA II links to feed it. Push the drives so far beyond any other spec that they Can't be ignored by the performance community, but keep then as afordable as possible in the process.

Other than the same kind of "enthusiast" that was dumping thousands into dual-Xeon workstations for gaming use long before multicore hit the consumer sector, is there anyone out there who would pay this kind of money? Or is this mainly going to end up in servers and specialty workstations?

Under $1000 eh?

So the price will be $999.99

Can you imagine how much better ReadyBoost would be using this thing!?

Nope, neither can I.

It appears we're seeing the return of the HardCard, this time with solid state storage rather than a hard disk.

they have the product
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/10116

but they did not release.that the real shame

that suppose to be reply to #26

The transfer rate of the old PC100 RAM sticks is 800 MB/s. So this harddrive is starting to get into RAM transfer rates. Even if its very old RAM that is still fast.

Fusion-io has had this type of product for a whilejust not aimed at desktops. Kind of funny how what's old is new though, remember those huge add in cards that housed additional RAM? Sure, this is non-volatile memory but the general idea is similar.

Access / seek times = wow.

/me wonders why somebody doesn't just sell a PCI-X card that you can buy and stick your own RAM into.

At that price I can only assume these are SLC NAND SSDs, which would also explain their high performance (and probably extended longevity as well).

:O

DO WANT

I assume this can only be this fast because it's using the PCI-e slot and not the SATA connector. Oh well..

Adi

In reply to the response to "#1" saying the 3gbps SATA2 spec is not limiting: That's true for regular drives, however, tfa says this card "will be able to hit a data throughput of 500 MB/s to 700 MB/s." That is vastly outside the capability of a single SATA link. 3Gb/s with 8b/10/b encoding = 300MB/s - nowhere near enough.

For under $1000? Not bad considering Intel's x25 is $750 CDN:

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=33277&vpn=SSDSA2MH080G1C...

Couldn't quickly find US price listing...

I would pay an incremental price over the Intel offering for twice the speed. No brainer really.