Photofast PCI solid state drives launched
JAPANESE MEMORY MAKER PHOTOFAST has released three PCI-based solid state drives (SSD) to compete with the recent offering from OCZ.
The G-Monster series drives come in 256GB, 512GB and 1TB flavours and slot into PCI Express x8 slots normally used for graphics, audio and networks cards among other things.
A built-in RAID 0 controller offers read speeds of 750MB per second and write speeds of 700MB. Windows Vista and XP are both bootable from the drives which should speed things up a bit.
Weighing in at 680 grams, the drives promise a rather ambitious MTBF (mean time before failure) of 1.5 million hours! That's about 171 years if our maths - and the translation - is right.
The apparently-indestructible storage devices will hit the market in June at an as-yet undisclosed price, but it ain't gonna be cheap. µ
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The MBFT of 1.5 million hours is a mixed bag of random failures and failures due to aging and usage. Presume that the random failures are dominant, at least for the first few years. And let us assume that every resident of London (7.5 Mpeople) owns one of these solid state drives and uses it non-stop. Then you would end up with one case of unrecoverable data loss every 12 minutes. Shocking? :-)
Not everybody in London is going to buy one of these nice drives, and certainly not all of the drives will be used constantly, but I hope you get the idea. People made similar experience with harddisks. Backup.
Looks like a workable form factor unlike the half baked OCZ offering,
where you may as well have purchased four SSDs, a PCI Express 8x RAID controller, and a StarTech SATABAY425BK 4x 2.5" in 1x 5.25" hotswap drive rack and called it a day.
It will be interest to see what the price on these are when they become available.
Stepping UP, Good Windows Thoughts, Pci-e 8X is ~2.5 Gb/s each direction, then Voltage, 3.3v to 5 v. OMG, Its Same ?Monster. Maybe their ready for variance in Voltage, heres some ststs:http://www.interfacebus.com/Design_Connector_PCI_Express.html Hope it
Don't Burn Out, I Hope It don't Burnt Out, Eyes Hope it.....Ben Bernie & Bernard $$ bin Drashek $$ One Thing ALL SSD Do Work Properly, Its Connection To Main That Seems Mighty LetDown.
Hey ShortStuff, your coment seems interesting, but I can't understand a damn thing. Have you used google to translate your coment into english? ...
Of course not Erick, that's just good'ol Drashek and his mumbojumbo way to write. It's pretty odd but you get used to it after a while. He should be hired by the Inq, imo.
MTBF (not MBTF) on storage is frequently very high, but that's not the same as life expectancy. That figure will be given by its service life.
If a drive has a 5-year service life and MTBF of 100 years, and you used 100 drives, you can expect an average of one failure per year within the service life. Once the service life is up, failure rates will climb.
Yes, I happen to like Drashek.
It wouldn't be the same here without him.