Judging SSD's by their little performance bits is a kind of amusing endeavor: the latest SandForce already saturates a 6Gbps SATA III link, and others are catching up real fast. This pretty standard unit of measure is hitting the limits of the interface, not the drive.
What other criteria are there? GB/$, performance/watt, watts at idle, IOps, and warranty or lifecycle costs. Personally, I find something "big enough", ignore power consumption and iops (neither is going to make a huge enough difference for me to concern myself), and then get whatever I can find that has the longest warranty.
the latest SandForce already saturates a 6Gbps SATA III link
Considering the dinosaur pace of new interfaces, and the fact that SATA III isn't even fully "rolled out" yet, I wonder if we are going to see a new wave of hackish custom solutions by manufacturers. Dual SATA ports on your drive, anyone?
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Judging SSD's by their little performance bits is a kind of amusing endeavor: the latest SandForce already saturates a 6Gbps SATA III link, and others are catching up real fast. This pretty standard unit of measure is hitting the limits of the interface, not the drive.
What other criteria are there? GB/$, performance/watt, watts at idle, IOps, and warranty or lifecycle costs. Personally, I find something "big enough", ignore power consumption and iops (neither is going to make a huge enough difference for me to concern myself), and then get whatever I can find that has the longest warranty.
the latest SandForce already saturates a 6Gbps SATA III link
Considering the dinosaur pace of new interfaces, and the fact that SATA III isn't even fully "rolled out" yet, I wonder if we are going to see a new wave of hackish custom solutions by manufacturers. Dual SATA ports on your drive, anyone?
Or, direct plug-in to PCI-E like the revodrive.
They're already combining two SAS ports to get 1 GB/s; you can't really do that with SATA, though.
http://www.smartm.com/products/productdetailssd.asp?SMARTPar...
We may also see some migration from SATA to NVM Express.