SanDisk Offers New Flash-Based PCI-e SSD Accelerator Card

malware · Nov 14, 2007

SanDisk Corporation today unveiled a solid-state storage solution that works in conjunction with a PC's hard drive to store and launch the computer's operating system and software applications when needed. The new SanDisk Vaulter Disk, which is a flash-based PCI Express module, tag-teams with your laptop or desktop computers' hard drive to provide enhanced performance and lower load times. Both Vaulter and the hard drive are integrated into the PC and operate simultaneously, while maintaining a low cost per gigabyte. The SanDisk Vaulter Disk will be offered to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) early next year in capacities from 8GB to 16GB.

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HookeyStreet · Nov 14, 2007

WOW! That sounds really cool

OnBoard · Nov 14, 2007

It sure does, but is this Vista readyboost feature only, or is there some software that is uses? I'm sure a big % of motherboard owners have at least 1 useless PCI-e 1x slot and this would be real nice to that, if it works that is

Need to see some benchies and price.

edit: read it once more and seems like it's just a 8 or 16GB SDD hard drive, that happens to be plugged in PCI-e slot? So you'd have to install OS and swap there to see performance gains, but I might be wrong too

FreedomEclipse · Nov 14, 2007

its a shame XP doesnt really support this. otherwise loading games onto this would be pretty awesome!!!

turtile · Nov 14, 2007

Does anyone know how fast it will be?

hacker111 · Nov 14, 2007

Sandisk

this sounds awsome with 8-16 gigabytes of storage space....sweet

selway89 · Nov 14, 2007

No word on a price though

FreedomEclipse · Nov 14, 2007

loads of OEM companies like DELL that also do laptops are selling this card with their laptops as standard or for a small price....when i heard about this I done a little research & most sites say that there is little or no difference at all depending on the configuration of the Pc/laptop.

the only way you rig will benefit highly from this is if your rig runs 1Gb of ram. if you have 2Gb of ram then the card wont even be working for you 80% of the time & will only kick in under certain conditions but even when it kicks in, any improvements on the system are so little they go unnoticed.

its all down to if you got money to throw away - personally id rather take the 2gb ram then run 1gb & 1 of these cards.

Cold Storm · Nov 14, 2007

FreedomEclipse said:
loads of OEM companies like DELL that also do laptops are selling this card with their laptops as standard or for a small price....when i heard about this I done a little research & most sites say that there is little or no difference at all depending on the configuration of the Pc/laptop.

the only way you rig will benefit highly from this is if your rig runs 1Gb of ram. if you have 2Gb of ram then the card wont even be working for you 80% of the time & will only kick in under certain conditions but even when it kicks in, any improvements on the system are so little they go unnoticed.

its all down to if you got money to throw away - personally id rather take the 2gb ram then run 1gb & 1 of these cards.

with you 100%

largon · Nov 14, 2007

This has nothing to do with Vista nor ReadyBoost - Vaulter is essentially a small solid state drive with PCIe x4 interface.
I'll buy it.

edit:
That's not a PCIe connector... :confused:

edit2:
It's PCIe Mini Card.

TheGuruStud · Nov 15, 2007

This is neat, but still not large enough

There are PCI cards out there that you plug in sticks of RAM into, but still only up to 16 GB. Those are hella fast though. Loads windows in like 5 sec (theoretically it could be instant, but I think windows slows it down....b/c it's windows lol)

largon · Nov 15, 2007

This should be in totally different $/GB ballpark than RAM-drives.

16GB is perfectly enough even for Vista (once tweaked with vLite) and 1-2 multi-gigabyte games.

FreedomEclipse · Nov 15, 2007

TheGuruStud said:
This is neat, but still not large enough There are PCI cards out there that you plug in sticks of RAM into, but still only up to 16 GB. Those are hella fast though. Loads windows in like 5 sec (theoretically it could be instant, but I think windows slows it down....b/c it's windows lol)

Those are called 'RAMDISK' they were made by a Gigabyte - also I think Asus were working on their own one at one point.

I have seen such disks in retail but only In Hong Kong lol, I dont think their very popular as most users reported loads of problems with data corruption etc as well as having compatability issues with certain RAM modules.

after that I dont remember hearing anything else about it.

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