Liqid Element PCIe SSD Does 7 GB/s and 1.24M IOPS
Going from fast to fastest, Colorado based Liqid Element is offering a PCIe Add-In-Card SSD. It is intended for the enterprise market, but the values are staggering. How does a NVMe based SSD sound with 7.0 GB/s and 6.3 GB/sec writes ?
The Element AIC offers a Gen 3.0 x8 PCIe interface, which enables high throughput and low latency transactions and utilizes the latest NVMe protocol in order to deliver increased performance and efficiency from a single device. The AIC outperforms legacy architectures by delivering 1.25 M IOPS of random performance, over 7 GB/s of throughput, and ultra-low transactional latency of 20 us.
They Japan based company Servant International that is behind the Liqid Element PCIe SSD will release MLC and TLC version and to expand a little on IOPS performance:
- Ran. Read IOPS (4k) ~1,250,000
- Ran. Write IOPS (4k) ~900,000
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Imagine this on a GPU, would be sick

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Foremost, it sounds expensive.
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I can imagine.
My display adapter memory are 528Gb/s.
So yeah, would be totally sick on these slow chips on GPU.

Meant it as the gpu having an ssd onto it. Basically a two in one package.
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And here I was excited for 3d Xpoint for the past year.. this is supreme for sure. Amazing performance and more amazing price tag undoubtedly.
Still though, for the enterprise this is truly an awesome bit of performance.
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This is a PCI-e 8x middle finger shown to Intel and their new fail-tech 3D Hype-point ...