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Gigabyte AORUS RAID SSD 2TB Sets the Standard for PCIe 3.0 - Deliver 6.2GB/s Read/Write Speeds
Gigabyte today launched the AORUS RAID SSD 2TB AIC Expansion Card which delivers up to 6.2GB/s read/write speeds through the PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.
With a RAID controller and four built-in 512GB NVMe M.2 SSDs, it outperforms traditional PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSDs by over 1.8 times and also supports the OS installation functions, providing the fastest storage performance on PCIe 3.0 platforms. AORUS RAID SSD 2TB features a single-slot, ultra-thin design which gives the user adequate clearance to work with, large internal cooling fins, a dual sided thermal pad, M.2 baseplate, and an active cooling design. Using the AORUS Storage Manager, users can access information on their SSD statuses/configuration to maximize performance and disk reliability!
At COMPUTEX 2019, AMD announced that its new X570 Platform was capable of delivering 5GBps read/write speeds as it brought forth the PCIe 4.0 era. However, Intel has yet to release hardware that is compatible with PCIe 4.0 so many users are unsure of whether to upgrade their systems to support PCIe 4.0. AORUS RAID SSD 2TB comes with pre-configured RAID 0 and 2TB capacity, offering users a storage solution upgrade that bolsters their read/write speeds without upgrading their system and buying additional NVMe SSDs to build their preference of disk arrays. AORUS RAID SSD 2TB SSD can be installed on Intel® X299, Z390 and AMD TRX40, X570 motherboards using the PCIe 3.0 or PCIe 4.0 x8 slot and users can extract 1.8x better performance compared to other PCIe 3.0 devices, even surpassing the read/write performance of PCIe 4.0 devices.
“Since higher read/write speeds on storage devices and better reliability enhance overall system performance, users often think of PCIe 4.0 as the way to go when it comes to upgrading their storage performance. However, support for PCIe 4.0 is currently only available on newer AMD platforms. There are many users without the latest AMD platforms who are looking to upgrade their storage performance without having to switch platforms so this is where the AORUS RAID SSD 2TB comes into play,” said Jackson Hsu, Director of the GIGABYTE Product Development Division. “Following the release of our highly-acclaimed 8TB AIC SSD, we are introducing our AORUS RAID SSD 2TB RAID Card with a built-in RAID controller. As soon as users install their OS, they can enjoy 6.2GB/s read/write speeds which even surpasses PCIe 4.0 read/write performance. AORUS RAID SSD 2TB is superior in pricing compared to PCIe 4.0 devices with the same capacity, which really gives users the best balance between cost and performance!”
AORUS RAID SSD 2TB features a sleek, single slot design which provides ample clearance for the user to install other PCIe ready devices, offering greater expansion capability. The RAID card sports a high quality, hairline metal plate, a black, hairline cooling backplate, and a dual ball bearing active cooling fan to maximize heat dissipation while showcasing the impressive AORUS style. The interior design of the AORUS RAID SSD 2TB also bolsters heat dissipation with its large cooling fans, dual-sided cooling pads, and M.2 heatsinks, which work together to dissipate heat, which is then cleared away from the card by the 5cm dual-ball bearing fans to keep the SSD running nice and cool during operation to maximize performance!
AORUS RAID SSD 2TB has a built in RAID controller for users to configure enterprise hardware RAID with OS Installable Support and switch from a RAID 0 configuration to RAID 1 or RAID 10 to adjust the best balance between performance and data reliability and not worry about damaging the disk array from motherboard failure. AORUS RAID SSD 2TB comes with 9 temperature sensors so users have access to the temperature data on all four M.2 SSDs via the AORUS Storage Manager. They can also find the right balance between fan noise and cooling by adjusting the fan speeds with the triple-stage dynamic speed control function.
As a PCIe 3.0 x8 RAID card that supports Intel® X299, Z390 and AMD TRX40, X570 platforms and is compatible with PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 interfaces, AORUS RAID SSD 2TB is a great solution for bolstering performance on a wide range of user configurations.
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#5753117 Posted on: 01/22/2020 09:54 AM
These are pretty cool. i can't wait to see them in pcie 4.0
These are pretty cool. i can't wait to see them in pcie 4.0
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#5753206 Posted on: 01/22/2020 03:01 PM
Raid-0 with four drives , LoL. You take x4 chances of hardware failure this way. Good for a gaming PC, but for gaming you dont need that kind of speed. For Pro workloads, this is very risky.
Not to be speak about the load this will likely put on the CPU, I guess it's software driven. If you need that kind of speed you should consider professional raid Adapters with x8 interface from LSI or alike that are hardware accelerated.
Raid-0 with four drives , LoL. You take x4 chances of hardware failure this way. Good for a gaming PC, but for gaming you dont need that kind of speed. For Pro workloads, this is very risky.
Not to be speak about the load this will likely put on the CPU, I guess it's software driven. If you need that kind of speed you should consider professional raid Adapters with x8 interface from LSI or alike that are hardware accelerated.
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#5753226 Posted on: 01/22/2020 04:33 PM
Raid-0 with four drives , LoL. You take x4 chances of hardware failure this way. Good for a gaming PC, but for gaming you dont need that kind of speed. For Pro workloads, this is very risky.
Not to be speak about the load this will likely put on the CPU, I guess it's software driven. If you need that kind of speed you should consider professional raid Adapters with x8 interface from LSI or alike that are hardware accelerated.
The risk is practically insignificant. RAID0 is only particularly risky with HDDs or with firmware/software based RAID. Most SSDs are basically in RAID0 anyway - you have a central controller writing to multiple NANDs simultaneously. The only difference is a SSD controller can keep track of which cells to write to, whereas a RAID controller will evenly split the data between each drive.
Raid-0 with four drives , LoL. You take x4 chances of hardware failure this way. Good for a gaming PC, but for gaming you dont need that kind of speed. For Pro workloads, this is very risky.
Not to be speak about the load this will likely put on the CPU, I guess it's software driven. If you need that kind of speed you should consider professional raid Adapters with x8 interface from LSI or alike that are hardware accelerated.
The risk is practically insignificant. RAID0 is only particularly risky with HDDs or with firmware/software based RAID. Most SSDs are basically in RAID0 anyway - you have a central controller writing to multiple NANDs simultaneously. The only difference is a SSD controller can keep track of which cells to write to, whereas a RAID controller will evenly split the data between each drive.
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#5753365 Posted on: 01/23/2020 02:00 AM
MSI has a product similar for years the M.2 xpander aero that uses up to 4 M.2's for 12000MBs. They also just updated it to PCI-e 4 included with the new creator x299 board. It also looks like a mid range graphics card.
MSI has a product similar for years the M.2 xpander aero that uses up to 4 M.2's for 12000MBs. They also just updated it to PCI-e 4 included with the new creator x299 board. It also looks like a mid range graphics card.
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#5753418 Posted on: 01/23/2020 07:52 AM
geez i hope no one looks up the speed of sata 3 in 2014. (its 6GB/s)
geez i hope no one looks up the speed of sata 3 in 2014. (its 6GB/s)
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#5753422 Posted on: 01/23/2020 08:08 AM
Hey, do we wait for the AIB models with custom cooling now?
Because, you know, 98% or so of us here spent extra time to go wait for AIB video boards, spent extra money on them (sometimes), so we can have a quiet fan(s) on them, and good temps.
Now we're supposed to run out and buy what we're missing, so we can then buy Gigabyte earmuffs, for the noise the drum fan will make, right?
Okay okay, sarcasm mode off... but it's still a nice-looking product that could prove useful for some. I'd like four fast drives for-sure, but an x8 card with 4x drives in Raid 1 would be more appealing for the content creation I do here. Not that I'd need a whole lot over my existing house-brand no-name NVME drive, to begin with.
So they narrowed their market with that Raid 0 stuff.
To be clear from someone who's gone through this. The chance you take of when the power goes out and you don't have a UPS system (if you don't), is more likely the chance of your drive corrupting the file allocation table bitmap. Similar things can happen and your drive can 'forget' it's part of a RAID array. Had both things happen due to power loss on drives that were supposed to be 'power loss protected' fail-safe drives, in a Raid 10.
No thanks. Just stick to ONE drive and back it up with incremental images.
Hey, do we wait for the AIB models with custom cooling now?
Because, you know, 98% or so of us here spent extra time to go wait for AIB video boards, spent extra money on them (sometimes), so we can have a quiet fan(s) on them, and good temps.
Now we're supposed to run out and buy what we're missing, so we can then buy Gigabyte earmuffs, for the noise the drum fan will make, right?
Okay okay, sarcasm mode off... but it's still a nice-looking product that could prove useful for some. I'd like four fast drives for-sure, but an x8 card with 4x drives in Raid 1 would be more appealing for the content creation I do here. Not that I'd need a whole lot over my existing house-brand no-name NVME drive, to begin with.
So they narrowed their market with that Raid 0 stuff.
To be clear from someone who's gone through this. The chance you take of when the power goes out and you don't have a UPS system (if you don't), is more likely the chance of your drive corrupting the file allocation table bitmap. Similar things can happen and your drive can 'forget' it's part of a RAID array. Had both things happen due to power loss on drives that were supposed to be 'power loss protected' fail-safe drives, in a Raid 10.
No thanks. Just stick to ONE drive and back it up with incremental images.
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#5753492 Posted on: 01/23/2020 01:14 PM
Raid-0 with four drives , LoL. You take x4 chances of hardware failure this way. Good for a gaming PC, but for gaming you dont need that kind of speed. For Pro workloads, this is very risky.
Not to be speak about the load this will likely put on the CPU, I guess it's software driven. If you need that kind of speed you should consider professional raid Adapters with x8 interface from LSI or alike that are hardware accelerated.
Everything you just said makes no sense.... Hardware failure happens at any level whether raid is involved or not. And what you're speaking of is exactly the same thing just with an additional controller/hardware. Raid 0 is worth it when performance is in question. I've been using it on my solid state drives since before trim support and windows 7.
Either way this is about speed and not redundancy....
Raid-0 with four drives , LoL. You take x4 chances of hardware failure this way. Good for a gaming PC, but for gaming you dont need that kind of speed. For Pro workloads, this is very risky.
Not to be speak about the load this will likely put on the CPU, I guess it's software driven. If you need that kind of speed you should consider professional raid Adapters with x8 interface from LSI or alike that are hardware accelerated.
Everything you just said makes no sense.... Hardware failure happens at any level whether raid is involved or not. And what you're speaking of is exactly the same thing just with an additional controller/hardware. Raid 0 is worth it when performance is in question. I've been using it on my solid state drives since before trim support and windows 7.
Either way this is about speed and not redundancy....
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#5753622 Posted on: 01/23/2020 08:29 PM
Raid-0 with four drives , LoL. You take x4 chances of hardware failure this way. Good for a gaming PC, but for gaming you dont need that kind of speed. For Pro workloads, this is very risky.
Not to be speak about the load this will likely put on the CPU, I guess it's software driven. If you need that kind of speed you should consider professional raid Adapters with x8 interface from LSI or alike that are hardware accelerated.
Wouldn't this cause gpu to run in 8x mode so how would it be good for gaming PC? And if you think 8x is no biggie remember the faster the memory on the gpu the more significant the difference(reminds me of people still thinking single channel memory is ok when the faster the memory the big the difference so ddr2/3 basically no diff but ddr4 huge difference especially 4000mhz+) so like a 2080ti would lose quite a bit of performance running in 8x. People often stuck in the past on such things.
Raid-0 with four drives , LoL. You take x4 chances of hardware failure this way. Good for a gaming PC, but for gaming you dont need that kind of speed. For Pro workloads, this is very risky.
Not to be speak about the load this will likely put on the CPU, I guess it's software driven. If you need that kind of speed you should consider professional raid Adapters with x8 interface from LSI or alike that are hardware accelerated.
Wouldn't this cause gpu to run in 8x mode so how would it be good for gaming PC? And if you think 8x is no biggie remember the faster the memory on the gpu the more significant the difference(reminds me of people still thinking single channel memory is ok when the faster the memory the big the difference so ddr2/3 basically no diff but ddr4 huge difference especially 4000mhz+) so like a 2080ti would lose quite a bit of performance running in 8x. People often stuck in the past on such things.
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#5753666 Posted on: 01/23/2020 10:58 PM
SATA is 6 Gbs or gigabits. This is 6 gigabytes. 8 times faster. It's the difference between little b or big B
geez i hope no one looks up the speed of sata 3 in 2014. (its 6GB/s)
SATA is 6 Gbs or gigabits. This is 6 gigabytes. 8 times faster. It's the difference between little b or big B
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#5753668 Posted on: 01/23/2020 11:11 PM
Its 6Gb/s, x8 difference.
post above got there first.
geez i hope no one looks up the speed of sata 3 in 2014. (its 6GB/s)
Its 6Gb/s, x8 difference.
post above got there first.
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#5753671 Posted on: 01/23/2020 11:18 PM
Depends on the motherboard whether it has enough PCIe x8 or x16 slots, most gaming mobos yes it will put the gfx card at x8.
PCIe speed doesnt cause gfx memory performance to retard.
It only affects how fast data can get from disk or system ram to gfx ram.
Game load times might be a little slower.
Wouldn't this cause gpu to run in 8x mode so how would it be good for gaming PC? And if you think 8x is no biggie remember the faster the memory on the gpu the more significant the difference(reminds me of people still thinking single channel memory is ok when the faster the memory the big the difference so ddr2/3 basically no diff but ddr4 huge difference especially 4000mhz+) so like a 2080ti would lose quite a bit of performance running in 8x. People often stuck in the past on such things.
Depends on the motherboard whether it has enough PCIe x8 or x16 slots, most gaming mobos yes it will put the gfx card at x8.
PCIe speed doesnt cause gfx memory performance to retard.
It only affects how fast data can get from disk or system ram to gfx ram.
Game load times might be a little slower.
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#5754357 Posted on: 01/26/2020 10:35 AM
Depends on the motherboard whether it has enough PCIe x8 or x16 slots, most gaming mobos yes it will put the gfx card at x8.
PCIe speed doesnt cause gfx memory performance to retard.
It only affects how fast data can get from disk or system ram to gfx ram.
Game load times might be a little slower.
and if you use a 5500 xt .... it is already running on either 8x PCIe 3 or 8xPCIe 4 .....so say in a X570 or b450 chipset ... you literally loose nothing combining it with such card ... now how well the 5500xt run on pcie 3 .... comparing to 4....and why someone with such video card will opt for such ssd ... thats a whole other matter
Depends on the motherboard whether it has enough PCIe x8 or x16 slots, most gaming mobos yes it will put the gfx card at x8.
PCIe speed doesnt cause gfx memory performance to retard.
It only affects how fast data can get from disk or system ram to gfx ram.
Game load times might be a little slower.
and if you use a 5500 xt .... it is already running on either 8x PCIe 3 or 8xPCIe 4 .....so say in a X570 or b450 chipset ... you literally loose nothing combining it with such card ... now how well the 5500xt run on pcie 3 .... comparing to 4....and why someone with such video card will opt for such ssd ... thats a whole other matter
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One would mistake it for a graphics card.