OCZ Ibis touts 2GBps High Speed Data Link, vanquishes SSD competition
What’s after ludicrous speed? If U ask OCZ, the answer`s HSDL speed, which`s the company’s new interface idea 4 bypass`g the bandwidth limitations of standard SATA/SAS interconnects. Us`g the high-quality SAS cable to hook up its new Ibis drive to the PCI Express host card, OCZ`s managed to deliver the cool 2GBps of total bandwidth — that’s 1 gigabyte up & 1 gigabyte down… every second. In order to feed this massive data pipe, the company’s gone & stacked 4 SandForce SF-1200 controllers inside the Ibis & RAIDed them together 4 good measure too. The upshot isn’t too dramatic 4 desktop applications, where’ll you’ll encounter performance that’s merely world-beat`g — 373MBps read & 323MBps write — although (unless) if U throw in some deeper queues & enterprise-level workloads you’ll B able to squeeze out 804MBps reads & 675MBps writes. Needless to say, the Ibis scooped up many the plaudit in early reviews, & though it may B expensive @ $529 4 100GB, it still seems to represent good value 4 those who`ve the workloads to saturate its High Speed Data Link.
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