Sunday, January 9, 2011

CES 2011: SATA 6 GB/s Just Became Obsolete!


OCZ Technology, a major worldwide distributor of Random Access Memory (RAM), Solid State Disks (SSD), and many other forms of computer component, have announced during this CES conference arguably the most important breakthrough in computing on the year.

Above, the image which you see is a sample device of what OCZ has dubbed the "IBIS XL" model SSD with proprietary HSDL (High Speed Data Link.)   Why ever is this technology going to replace the SATA format?  I'll leave that to OCZ's official website announcement to explain.

"OCZ strives to push the envelope by delivering higher performance, reliability and storage capacity to meet the demands of the enterprise market. The follow-up Z-Drive “R3” PCI-Express SSD is OCZ’s first SandForce-Driven PCI-Express SSD for Tier-0/1 data applications, and offers staggering performance at over 1GB/s and 135,000 IOPS and up to 1.2TB of capacity in a small and elegant footprint. An on-location technology demo includes the IBIS “XL” based on OCZ’s proprietary High Speed Data Link (HSDL) interface unveiled last quarter, featuring 4TBs of storage capacity at over 1.8GB/s transfer speeds and 200,000 IOPS. "

Now, after reading through all of that, I'll explain it to you in a simpler way:

SATA Non-SSD:  Top end sustained data rate of about 200MB/s
SATA SSD Current:  Top end sustained data rate of about 140 MB/s
SATA IBIS XL:  Top end read/write speed of about 1700 MB/s

That's a whole lot of improvement!

Rumor has it that OCZ is currently working with undetermined motherboard manufacturing companies on having this required HSDL input built into future boards.  If your board doesn't support the device, early models of the drive as shown are transferring all data over PCI-E ports, so keep your fingers crossed that this technology can hit your home or office in the near future!

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