Super Talent's Shows Its Super Fast PCI-e SSD

Super Talent had its RAIDdrive GS card on display and on demo at the show floor here at Computex.

The PCI-e card allows users to experience performance beyond the 3 Gbps limitation of the current SATA spec. Despite SATA 6 Gbps coming soon, the PCI-e interconnect still provides superior bandwidth.

The current generation of Super Talent's RAIDdrive GS actually uses 4 Indilinx SSD controllers on one card and supports up to 2 TB of in a MLC configuration or 1 TB in a SLC configuration. Keep in mind that you get more capacity with MLC drives but you take a performance hit. SLC SSD drives also cost a lot more to produce.

Current sequential read and write performance on the RAIDdrive GS? 1.5 GB/sec. and 1.3 GB/sec. respectively--that's gigabytes per second.

Super Talent indicated to us that its future RAIDdrive will support 8 Indilinx SSD controllers for even more RAID and throughput performance. Stacking multiple controllers together also allows Super Talent to deliver RAIDdrive GSes with higher capacities.

We were told that the 8-controller version of the RAIDdrive will cost below $1000 when it ships.