Comments on: ASUS Launches RAIDR Express 240GB PCIe Solid State Drive

By: Robert Loyd

Robert Loyd — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:02:00 +0000

The use of dual SF-2281′s which are going to be cheap since they came out in 2011. The IOPS you will have to refer to the SF-2281′s performance spec’s which is easily enough to do a search on. The 800+ claimed read/writes are probably on considering the PCIe is used, and could be faster if a better controller set was used. So it’s merely repackaged 2011 technology. Even the MLC is probably just within spec, and might even be 2011 tech. But until someone can open up this solution and read and cross reference the numbers on the MLC chips. We’ll never know. Don’t get me wrong I wouldn’t mind one of these. But the price point vs technology will be interesting. Yes, it’s a pretty package also. So in the end I will not pay more than $150 for 2011 possibly 2012 technology, nor should anyone else. I am not drooling and would take a newer video card before this, which will provide me better FPS and game performance. $150 to $180 would make for a fair price range for this.

By: Robert Loyd

Robert Loyd — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:23:00 +0000

It would be nice to be able to afford either of these solutions. But at $649… I’ll wait. But with a SSD as a primary boot, either of these are great for media transcoding. For now I use one drive to read, transcode, and the write to a different drive. Thus it get’s done faster.

By: Robert Loyd

Robert Loyd — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:04:00 +0000

Form Factor “Nudge” – “PCI-Express (PCIe) solid state drive (SSD) for next-generation ultra-slim notebook PCs. ”
Which might be supported, not every laptop is going to be able to use it.