SSD is super fast in read and write speeds. But the downside with most SSDs is they use a SATA interface that will impose some limitations to its bandwidth. Now, OCZ has announced its IBIS SSD, which uses its proprietary HSDL interface to bypass the bandwidth limitation of SATA interface and allows it to achieve a total bandwidth of 2GBps (1 Gigabyte up and 1 Gigabyte down per second).
The OCZ IBIS SSD’s HSDL interface needs it to be hooked up to a PCI Express card by the use of a high-quality SAS cable, which provides the 2 Gigabyte per second of total bandwidth. This is even much faster than the next gen 6Gbps (6 Gigabit per second) SATA interface. Of course, the significance will only seen in enterprise-level applications which will pump at speeds of writes and reads about 804MBps and 675MBps respectively.
The OCZ IBIS SSDs are now available in a wide range of storage capacities ranging from 100GB to 960GB. The 100GB is already priced at $529. And the 960GB is priced at as much as $2,800. Of course, the prices shouldn’t be any problem for any enterprise-level firms – where every inch of time worth an inch of gold.
via engadget hothardware
December 15th, 2010 at 6:37 am
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