Tuesday, November 16th 2010
LSI Announces WarpDrive SLP-300 Enterprise PCI-E SSD
LSI announced a new high-end enterprise solid state drive (SSD) best suited for heavy-duty database operations. The WarpDrive SLP-300 from LSI is a PCI-Express x8 addon card that is driven by LSI's SAS2008 controller. A number of SandForce-driven SSD modules bearing single-level cell 30 nm-class NAND flash chips provide storage of 300 GB, latency of under 50 μs, capability of 240,000 IOPS for 4K reads, and 200,000 IOPS for 4K writes, and data-rates of 1,400 MB/s read and 1,200 MB/s write. The drive has a MTBF of 2 million hours. Backed by a 3-year warranty, the LSI WarpDrive SLP-300 will be priced at US $11,500 when it releases to market on 29th November.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
13 Comments on LSI Announces WarpDrive SLP-300 Enterprise PCI-E SSD
Those speeds are insane to say the least, but charging 10x the prices for them? Meh.
For where it's going, $11.5K is a pretty good price. That would only buy ya 35-40 15K mechanical drives, not counting the housing, cooling, U space. Perf-wise, this would murder 40 short-stroked 15K's.
11500$ means buying a very good car btw...
$ 11,000 for massive performance, coupled with reduced space and cooling requirements is a big deal for the businesses that this is aimed at.
Anytime you read the words "Enterprise Class" in a subject, get ready for a price that is out of most desktop users budgets.
want.at this rate, sata might disappear for hard drives - straigjht into PCI-E slots.
- Six modules.
- Is bootable.
- 24w max draw.
Yes, its 6 modules, and its far less that 25watts...
25 watts is the max allowed by the PCIe spec... so thats what the white papers say :)
I bet its about 12.... But I wouldn't know.