Liqid Element PCIe SSD Does 7 GB/s and 1.24M IOPS

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/26/2017 06:39 PM | source: | 9 comment(s)

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

There will be 960GB, 1.92TB and 3.84 TB models available with MLC NAND. And for the Enterprise market a 800GB, 1.6 TB and 3.2 TB TLC model. Welcome to the future?

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wavetrex
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#5424789 Posted on: 04/26/2017 07:13 PM

This is a PCI-e 8x middle finger shown to Intel and their new fail-tech 3D Hype-point ...

IceVip
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#5424795 Posted on: 04/26/2017 07:23 PM

Imagine this on a GPU, would be sick

Kaarme
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#5424818 Posted on: 04/26/2017 08:34 PM

Foremost, it sounds expensive.

IceVip
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#5424819 Posted on: 04/26/2017 08:37 PM

I can imagine.

My display adapter memory are 528Gb/s.

So yeah, would be totally sick on these slow chips on GPU. :puke2:

Meant it as the gpu having an ssd onto it. Basically a two in one package.

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#5424829 Posted on: 04/26/2017 09:00 PM

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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