Say hello to G.Skill's Phoenix PCIe SSD Blade at 1800 MB/s
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WolfPT
Jesus christ, now those are some sick speeds!
Marringu
SSDs with a native PCI-E controller, that's where the enterprise is heading. I'd like to see how cards such as these perform in raid 50 and 10.
Loobyluggs
Goodbye platter's o7
Godamn we all got excited by the prospect of SSD's and now we got this. It's like meeting a hot girl in a club and finding out she has a twin, or is a nurse...and an lingerie model.
We gotta think of a new term for these 'drives - who wants to coin it?
Mato87
I have an mSATA 256 gb Crucial M550 for my system and programd, are these pcie drives worth it? I saw a price raging from 700 euro to 1200 euro...if I buy one where do I plug my 2nd dedicated gk ? I already have 4 slots taken by 2 graphic cards and one dedicated sound card....they need to buff the speeds on msatas
Solfaur
Monsters, I'd need to take a couple of the 960GBs just so I can have all my steam/origin etc. folders in there. It will probably cost at least an arm and a leg though. 😀
NamelesONEMail
There is absolutely no reason why you would need to install your games on such a fast SSD(probably NOT EVEN on a normal SSD) ... this is for those who do video editing mostly(or just have too much money) ... that is the only place where such a product makes sense. Honestly I would love a 240GB version of it with the same speeds cause I don't need such space just for windows and my editing software. Right now I'm using a 120GB Corsair GT SSD and I still have 50+GB free on it and as far as space is conercerned, I have 7 TB(2+2+3) of HDD space for games and raw video files ...
Nightowl225
I wonder what controller they're using for these cards. I'm planning on getting a new SSD for a boot drive, but haven't decided for sure which one I want.
Solfaur
I know, but a man can dream right? :P
Btw, I have almost exactly the same setup as you, same SSD with BF4 on it and OS, and 2+1+1+3 TB HDDs, WD Black, REs, Red. 🙂
CronoGraal
Wonder if the same people who can afford these even have room. Looks like it takes 2x PCI spaces.
NamelesONEMail
And we're both from Romania ( salut :cheers: ) ... the world sure is a small place 🙂)
Anyway .. it will be a while till we can get 3TB+ SSD's with that speed at prices lower than a kidney. :dead:
They should ... even with 2x SLI/Crossfire as long as you either don't use a soundcard(as these new Z97 boards seem to save very good onboard audio) or an external one such as Xonar Essence One or Essence III orthey could just have one dual-gpu graphics card and then you could also install a normal soundcard ... Where there's a will there's a way. 🤓
Braadkip
Ooohhh .. Hello!! 🙂
StewieTech
I wonder what´s the real impact on everday usage versus a sata3 ssd...everthing´s so damn fast on my ssd already. 😀
schmidtbag
It appears to me to be only 1 slot:
http://www.tweaktown.com/image.php?image=http://imagescdn.tweaktown.com/news/3/8/38195_07_g_skill_s_new_960gb_pcie_based_ssd_is_capable_of_1_8gb_sec_reads_full.jpg
It'd be pretty dumb to have an 8x card take up 2 slots, especially considering SSDs don't tend to get very hot. It's nice though - there are tons of motherboards out there that could take advantage of this. Large PCIe slots are becoming pretty common lately.
Seems like SATA is going to be obsoleted pretty soon.
automaticman
In the picture it does look pretty thick, but if you look up at the end where the expansion plate is it doesn't actually look any thicker than the single slot expansion plate itself.
CybrSage
Game level load times are faster when the game is installed on a SSD vice a HDD. The actual install of the game is also faster on a SSH. That said, a 256G SSD is super cheap and would be plenty big for the OS and games. No need for anything bigger - a cheap HDD should be used for mass storage of things like pictures, mp3s, etc.
Brasky
pretty quick! on a side note, i was kind of hoping that in the picture the ram would have been something OTHER than G.Skill!:banana:
Darkest
Of course there is.
Games that stream textures from the drive they're installed onto can benefit hugely from being on an SSD. MMO's and the like, as well as large open world games in general. There's more to a gaming experience than a high frame rate. That said, I do agree that a drive such as the one in the OP is massive overkill for such a task and shouldn't be considered if that's the aim of the buyer.
NamelesONEMail
My HDD's all have ~150+ Mb/sec and quite honesty the extra few seconds between level loading times can't possibly justify the extra costs ... I'd need a 1TB SSD for my games (just Skyrim - modded - is close to 70Gb) which costs as much as 3x 3TB HDD (if not more?? - maybe even 3x4TB) ... that would be like buying a Ferrari just to go down the street to buy groceries cause you don't like the fact that your Pickup truck takes 10 seconds and you want it to take only 2 ... at least that's what someone like me who thinks if he actually needs something, before buying it, since I don't have money to just waste.
SkinnyDog
Ohhhh Myyyy!!!!
Darkest
As I said, it depends on the games you play. Playing something like WoW or Diablo 3 on anything other than an SSD is simply unacceptable to me, and it most definitely isn't due to my having money to waste. I buy most of my games digitally, and since I'm usually able to attain my top speed from the places I buy my games from (Steam for example) I don't need a lot of storage space for such things. If I want to play something I set a download and go make myself a cup of tea, it'll be done by the time I'm back. For this purpose, and for games that do benefit, a 128-256 gig SSD suffices for most.
