OCZ Starts Shipping Z-Drive R3 P84 PCI-E SSDs

[gaurang]

Equipped with a PCI-E x8 interface, the SSDs reach impressive max read and write speeds of 1,000 MB/s and 970 MB/s respectively.

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[Bocephus]

Why in the world would someone use PCIE HDD's?? I don't understand the use for this. Mobo real estate is a premium especially when running 2 or more GPU's. If you only use 1 GPU throw in a raid controller and a premium sound card and you have no room for it. I won't even consider this option, they need to stick with 2" - 3.5" HDD's.

 

[Ya93sin]

Why in the world would someone use PCIE HDD's?? I don't understand the use for this. Mobo real estate is a premium especially when running 2 or more GPU's. If you only use 1 GPU throw in a raid controller and a premium sound card and you have no room for it. I won't even consider this option, they need to stick with 2" - 3.5" HDD's.

seeing as SATAIII has a 6Gbps limit, putting the SSD on the mobo removes that bottleneck, allowing the SSD to use its full speeds of (from this source for example) about 8Gbps (1000 MBps)

 

[tinytomlogan]

Still an ocz though so you wont get me wasting my time on one.

 

[eunoia]

C'mon, you gotta be intrigued at these speeds. I'm going to take a quick guess at prices: not cheap.

 

[Ya93sin]

probably £1.5k for the 1TB ones

 

[Technex]

Still an ocz though so you wont get me wasting my time on one.

+1

 

[michaelah500]

Still an ocz though so you wont get me wasting my time on one.

What's this hatred of OCZ ? Haha my Reaper RAM has been fine : P

 

[S_I_N]

lol da Guv has voiced on these drives. I thought they'd be screamers as most reviews I have seen state. Hey Guv is there something wrong I havent heard about these drives???

 

[Ya93sin]

these are near if not the top range SSD product that OCZ are selling. if they cant deliver on a product having been given a couple grand, then they really are going to be in trouble

 

[trazomfr]

I want to buy two but could not find its price.

Oops, I must leave you, my banker calls me.

 

[mgally]

We use the previous generation of these cards in my workplace and to be fair they are pretty good if you are after storage with very low latency times. However they can't beat Fusion IO who are the Dogs in the space.

http://www.fusionio.com/products/iodriveoctal - Mind you this card costs £60,000

 

[jaw2floor]

At a small price of £9999999, value for more money is obsolete!

 

[Papa J]

Still an ocz though so you wont get me wasting my time on one.

But why?