Friday, April 6th 2012
MSI GT70 SuperRAID Solution Pictured, Tested
MSI released pictures and performance numbers of its in-house SuperRAID storage design that's implemented in its GT70 gaming notebook. The GT70 has two drive bays, one of which holds a 500 GB WD Scorpio Black hard drive, and the other, the SuperRAID module. The hard drive is tasked with just storage and a system recovery partition, while the SuperRAID module is where the action is.
Simply put, the SuperRAID module is a PCB with a RAID controller, and two mSATA 6 Gb/s slots. Each of these slots holds a SanDisk U100 64 GB mSATA SSD. Each of these SSDs come with rated sequential transfer rates as high as 440 MB/s (reads) with 220 MB/s (writes), but striped in RAID 0, the volume churns out tested transfer rates as high as 964 MB/s (max. read), 928 MB/s (avg. read), and 843 MB/s (min. read), when tested by HDTune Pro 5.00. The SuperRAID module is bootable, and holds the operating system and programs. MSI claims with transfer speeds well over 900 MB/s, it has the fastest storage solution among gaming notebooks.
Simply put, the SuperRAID module is a PCB with a RAID controller, and two mSATA 6 Gb/s slots. Each of these slots holds a SanDisk U100 64 GB mSATA SSD. Each of these SSDs come with rated sequential transfer rates as high as 440 MB/s (reads) with 220 MB/s (writes), but striped in RAID 0, the volume churns out tested transfer rates as high as 964 MB/s (max. read), 928 MB/s (avg. read), and 843 MB/s (min. read), when tested by HDTune Pro 5.00. The SuperRAID module is bootable, and holds the operating system and programs. MSI claims with transfer speeds well over 900 MB/s, it has the fastest storage solution among gaming notebooks.
16 Comments on MSI GT70 SuperRAID Solution Pictured, Tested
Though at least use a pair of 120/128GB mSATA drives for the capacity. Otherwise, I would prefer a single, larger 2.5" in that spot.
(My Vertex3 maxes out around 500MB/s, not 900MB/s)
Can it run
CryTRIM command?Also, seems the chipset would have little to do with it given that the SuperRAID has it's own controller.
Did not come out and declare it as fact earlier as because two things could have happened:
- It's using a new unknown controller.
- The news articles miscategorizes the chip used as a RAID controller when it is not.
I thought of the latter because of the answer given in post #6. However, with only a snide remark in #9 with no information on the controller used or evidence to the contrary, the answer to btarunr's question is simply "no" ...unless you would like to bring some information to tread? I'm all eyes.
My RAID-0 has no trim and every time I run a benchmark, it continue to astonish me with 1gb/s read and write.
I am assuming it has an mSata connector in there.
If that is so, then using a small size SSD (say 1.8mm) and placing this raid thingy on top plus a flexit-like mSata extension, it could fit into other laptops... could it?