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Sonnet Announces Tempo Ultra-high Performance PCIe SSD

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Sonnet Technologies today announced the Tempo PCIe SSD PCI Express (PCIe) solid state drive (SSD) card with a 512GB SSD module, as the newest member of the Sonnet Tempo family of high-performance storage cards. The Sonnet PCIe SSD card serves as an ultra-fast alternative to traditional storage solutions mounting a high-performance PCIe SSD on a card that installs into a computer's PCIe expansion card slot.

Available in various form factors and capacities, SSDs have become important components in systems requiring extremely fast data transfer speeds and large numbers of I/O operations. Sonnet designed the Tempo PCIe SSD card around an M.2 PCIe SSD module, the fastest consumer-oriented SSD type now available. Capable of transferring files at up to 1100 MB/s, the Tempo PCIe SSD's module incorporates a PCIe flash controller, enabling the card to significantly outperform a 6Gbps SATA SSD, and to achieve even greater performance than two 2.5-inch form factor SATA SSDs configured in RAID 0.



The Tempo PCIe SSD is a low-profile PCIe 2.0 card with an attached M.2 PCIe SSD providing 512GB of storage. Its small form factor allows this card to be installed into any x4 mechanical or larger PCIe slot in a Mac Pro tower or Windows desktop or server computer, or into any Thunderbolt-to-PCIe card expansion system such as Sonnet's Echo Express line, xMac Pro Server, or xMac mini Server. This enables users to add high performance storage easily without increasing their computer's footprint or cluttering a work surface with an additional external storage device.

With the Tempo PCIe SSD card installed in a Mac Pro tower or Thunderbolt-to-PCIe card expansion system, users can install OS X on the SSD and create an extremely fast boot drive. In a Windows PC or Mac-based system, the Tempo PCIe SSD can be used for instant access media storage or as a high-performance scratch disk.

"The Tempo PCIe SSD boasts performance once exclusive to multidrive storage systems with eight or more hard disk drives plus a high-end RAID controller card," said Robert Farnsworth, CEO of Sonnet Technologies. "Through its wide compatibility and ultra-high performance, our Tempo PCIe SSD provides convenient internal storage expansion through any available PCIe slot."

Compatible with OS X 10.8.5+ (including Yosemite); Microsoft Windows 8 and 7; and Windows Server 2012 and 2008; the Tempo PCIe SSD (part number PCIE-SSD1-512-E) is available now at a suggested retail price of $799. More information on the Tempo PCIe SSD is available here.

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So finally a SSD that can compare to a samsung xp941 then, but at a higher price (got mine at a price equivalent of 470 usd)
 
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Ultra-high Performance?
and up to 1100 MB/s?
Hey, there are 3000 MB + SSD drives on the market!
I remember that I saw "PNY Releases Ultra-fast HP x755w USB 3.0 Flash Drive. Data transfer up to 90 MB/sec and 30 MB/sec sequential read and write speed".
Ultra Fast?
and 30 MB write speed?
http://www.techpowerup.com/206018/pny-releases-ultra-fast-hp-x755w-usb-3-0-flash-drive.html
Your headlines are all "American Style". "Hyper, Super, Ultra........"
These words are UNNECESSARY and POINTLESS.
Give up this behaviour.
You can use these words "Fast" or "Faster than SATA III" or "Faster than USB 2.0."
I do not like American Jargon.

thats the dirty work of marketing team for you.
 
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The speed statement was qualified and may or may not be true but it says:

"Sonnet designed the Tempo PCIe SSD card around an M.2 PCIe SSD module, the fastest consumer-oriented SSD type now available"

That being said how SSD performance is measured and advertised varies considerably and all suppliers want to make their product look the best. As actual testing has shown some makes and models of SSDs perform slightly better for some applications than in others. Pretty much all of the SSDs show excellent performance. The small differences in claimed performance between models is almost undetectable in actual use based on many tests thus reliability, service, price, etc. may be more significant than just the advertised maximum speed under ideal conditions that rarely ever exist in a PC except when testing a specific hardware product.
 
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Still waiting for reasonably priced consumer PCIe SSDs. Why is it so difficult??
 
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