http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/ocz-z-driver4-cloudserv-pcie-ssd-cloud-computing-enterprise-ssds,1-94.html
 
 
 
I would love to have this. I wonder how much it costs. lol.

Holy
 
 

It only costs $250+ Million

I'll take two. and charge em please (to jacob's account).

just wow wish i had on of those.....

How do you even buy something like this? I doubt it will show up on newegg.

kidcrumb


How do you even buy something like this? I doubt it will show up on newegg.

 
First you have to perform the black sacrament and shortly after a "Sales rep" will contact you and discuss the contract to acquire one.

burning_kittins

kidcrumb


How do you even buy something like this? I doubt it will show up on newegg.

First you have to perform the black sacrament and shortly after a "Sales rep" will contact you and discuss the contract to acquire one.

Then the night mother will bestow upon me an OCz 16TB PCIe SSD.

A 3.2TB version cost 20k 
http://www.neweggbusiness.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227774
So I imagine that one is around 100k 

Wow. What a complete waste of money. hahaha. 
 
Even if you need speed you could make everything in your system much faster for that kind of money. Fully utilizing the slower speed is probably more cost effective than getting the kind of boost $100,000 for only 16TB would give you. 

kidcrumb

Wow. What a complete waste of money. hahaha. 
Even if you need speed you could make everything in your system much faster for that kind of money. Fully utilizing the slower speed is probably more cost effective than getting the kind of boost $100,000 for only 16TB would give you. 

You are aware that these products aren't aimed at end-users, rather companies in which their revenue pays for the purchase of several of them rather quickly. 
 
We aren't entitled to anything that is available for purchase, some products aren't in the market with enthusiasts in mind; in fact I can say most of them.

Can I get one for review testing? :P

I Might Snag the 300GB or 500GB drive I have a Revo X2 240GB which is almsot full, if its priced right (under or near $1,000.00) I might get one. My Revo X2 240GB was $600.00 when I bought it.

kidcrumb


How do you even buy something like this? I doubt it will show up on newegg.

I bet that's what some said a year before 512GB SSD's arrived. 

I know the enthusiast is in mind. Even if you can afford it doesnt mean you should buy it. Opportunity cost. The things you can buy with 100k imo outweigh the performance of that SSD when youll probably need to buy quite a few of them. Either one Ultra server or 5 great servers. 

Hmmm... Paying off the mortgage or a new SSD?  Tricky one this guys.

i sure that thing uses every bit of the x16 pcie slot i could see these going into data centers and storage arrays.  the cost saving just for the cooling of a data center since these produce no where near the heat of a 10k rpm HD's

quadlatte


i sure that thing uses every bit of the x16 pcie slot i could see these going into data centers and storage arrays.  the cost saving just for the cooling of a data center since these produce no where near the heat of a 10k rpm HD's

 
Actually, I believe it just runs with an x8 signal. It just uses a x16 slot.
http://www.anandtech.com/...-sandforce-controllers
 
As for the price, try using this as a reference:
http://www.sabrepc.com/p-...-multi-level-cell.aspx
 
Basically, it is one of those things that if you have to ask, it is too much.

I assumed the PCIe slot was for power not transfer of data. I thougnt youd still have to plug it in via SATA or whatever. 

kidcrumb


I assumed the PCIe slot was for power not transfer of data. I thougnt youd still have to plug it in via SATA or whatever. 

 
The days of using Sata are coming to a end
 
PCI-E SSDs have been around for a fair amount of time now. And Raid cards have used PCI-E for data before them.

PCIe won't replace SATA because you can only really fit 1, maybe 2 of those in a consumer PC. SATA you can load out with 8,10,12....
 
even if you get a PCIe SATA controller, the drives are still SATA and the connectors too. Maybe they'll replace it with newer and newer connectors, but they won't go PCIe. It's too restrictive.

mlittrell


PCIe won't replace SATA because you can only really fit 1, maybe 2 of those in a consumer PC. SATA you can load out with 8,10,12....

even if you get a PCIe SATA controller, the drives are still SATA and the connectors too. Maybe they'll replace it with newer and newer connectors, but they won't go PCIe. It's too restrictive.

SAS will replace SATA eventually, its more compact and has a higher speeds, EVGA is using these on the SR-X board.
 
And you Right about PCIe being restritive, Although there SUPER fast I have to store all my files on SATA based drives, My PCIe SSD is a boot drive and man are these things fast.

kidcrumb


I know the enthusiast is in mind. Even if you can afford it doesnt mean you should buy it. Opportunity cost. The things you can buy with 100k imo outweigh the performance of that SSD when youll probably need to buy quite a few of them. Either one Ultra server or 5 great servers. 

Enthusiasts are the last thing in mind with this product. its for enterprise for a reason.

starsmine

kidcrumb

I know the enthusiast is in mind. Even if you can afford it doesnt mean you should buy it. Opportunity cost. The things you can buy with 100k imo outweigh the performance of that SSD when youll probably need to buy quite a few of them. Either one Ultra server or 5 great servers. 

Enthusiasts are the last thing in mind with this product. its for enterprise for a reason.

Only because I do it frequently because I type slower than I think and love the edit buttom, he may have missed an "n't" after is considering the context of the rest of his reply, but that's just a thought.
 
Still, I think only a relative handful of companies by the top model, much like enthusiasts; except unlike enthusiasts, they may buy dozens or hundreds of them. 
 
Still surprises me how so many folks don't give these companies the benefit of doubt that by the time these products come to market, the target customer has already been identified and the price is already justified for that target market.  These companies don't spend millions on a hunch they will sell, they know who they are going to sell to.  Why this makes no sense to some folks, I don't know. 

I want one for a 1$!

mlittrell


PCIe won't replace SATA because you can only really fit 1, maybe 2 of those in a consumer PC. SATA you can load out with 8,10,12....

even if you get a PCIe SATA controller, the drives are still SATA and the connectors too. Maybe they'll replace it with newer and newer connectors, but they won't go PCIe. It's too restrictive.

 
Actually, PCIe will replace SATA with SATA Express.
http://www.sata-io.org/technology/sataexpress.asp

I guess robbing one bank won't be enough to purchase one of these.

Good lordy. Does the random access time increase in a linear nature or exponentially? I can't imagine it takes the same amount of time to find a file on a 60GB SSD as it does on a 16TB one. 

Aggressor Prime

mlittrell


PCIe won't replace SATA because you can only really fit 1, maybe 2 of those in a consumer PC. SATA you can load out with 8,10,12....

even if you get a PCIe SATA controller, the drives are still SATA and the connectors too. Maybe they'll replace it with newer and newer connectors, but they won't go PCIe. It's too restrictive.

Actually, PCIe will replace SATA with SATA Express.
http://www.sata-io.org/technology/sataexpress.asp

If it's some kind of direct jumper on the motherboard (in the fashion of current SATA) then I believe it. If it needs to use a PCIe slot I can't see it ever taking off. There's not enough PCIe slots for folks that want multiple drives, or folks that SLI/X-fire video cards, this covering up other PCIe slots and so forth.
 
If they can get it to start using PCIe bandwidth without occupying a slot, more power to them! If it's slot-dependent, I should have stated, I don't see it working. My Revo2 X2 is blazing fast and an awesome drive... But it's using my last PCIe slot. I wouldn't get another. I couldn't get another! So, speaking from experience: If they can get the same results (speed) without the need to occupy a slot, then we'd have a winner.
 
Of course that would mean mobos need more pathways... We're already running into problems where vid cards don't even have all their pathways dedicated. Splitting off 8x or 4x if multiple cards are installed, etc. That's another side of it that will have to be improved.

konrad9


Good lordy. Does the random access time increase in a linear nature or exponentially? I can't imagine it takes the same amount of time to find a file on a 60GB SSD as it does on a 16TB one. 

im pretty sure it does not increase at all.