Super Talent RAIDDrive II Plus PCIe SSD Writes at 3.2 GB/s

Super Talent RAIDDrive II Plus PCIe SSD Writes at 3.2 GB/s, and wow that is amazing. Just when you thought you have seen the latest and greatest SSDs SuperTalent breaks the barriers with a new product that looks to be one of the fastest SSDs one can get their mitts on.  PCIe SSD products are known to be ultra fast, but they have also been known to be super pricey and some of the products that were originally released were not up to par making them a bit of a risky business with a huge price tag attached.

The technology behind PCIe SSD products has come a long ways and now most allow booting from Windows as the main drive, which was a problem on some of the earlier products. The new SuperTalent RAIDDrive II Plus is based on the PCIe 2.0 8X interface and features 8 internal SSDs connected via a SATA interface. These new RAIDDrive Plus SSDs can be setup to run in either RAID 0 or a RAID 5 Array. The card is a bit longer than your standard PCIe SSD and looks about as long as a standard VGA card.

SuperTalent has stated that this new SSD is a very high-performance part that has read speeds of about 2600 MB/s and can write up to 3200 MB/s, which when compared to your normal SATA3 connection pale in comparison.  There is also 1GB of DDR2 SDRAM used as cache for on-board users. This new beauty can also send out notifications via the SMTP, which allows the drives owner to receive information on the drive in case something goes wrong. For those working in situations where up-time is must this can be a valuable tool, and with an SSD that runs this fast turnaround time on sensitive projects is reduced by quite a bit.

At the initial launch SuperTalent will offer up 3 different capacities of the new RAIDDrive II Plus with each being configured to either a RAID 0 or RAID 5 array right out of the box.  Official pricing has yet to be named and that is normal as prices fluctuate very highly in this market and a higher or lower price will be determined by the cost of technology at the time of manufacture. I would expect the prices to be very high on initial launch so for those who want these yesterday get ready to sell an extra body part, as you know it will be expensive. Expensive and fast though, so for some this may be a perfect solution to their needs.  So what do you think? Is this too cool for school, or just another product? Thanks for reading Tech Of Tomorrow and happy hump day my amigos.

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