Errrrrrr wrote:Those benchmarks aren't as impressive as they should be. I guess for a file server or something it'll do, but again, 64GB is probably too small. The power consumption and CPU utilization are kind of alarming though.
The interesting thing about this is probably the fact that you can retire your old DRAM sticks and make use of them in some way should you upgrade your system.
Yeah, the controller seems limited; heck Intel's SSD beats it on many tests. I mostly posted it in jest; perhaps if the enclosure was closer to $50 than $400 it'd be viable at least as a tool-around toy with like 8gb of ram as an OS drive (but then again, 8gb is cramped for OS drives these days too, probably couldn't even get a single game on there with the OS.) The power usage isn't surprising, really. Half of it is probably keeping that battery at full charge (they ought to have disconnected the battery then tested power util), and the other half is refreshing the DRAM, something flash SSD's don't have to do.
The super-high CPU utilization happened only when the SSD was run in RAID0, and that seems to me that's the fault of a shitty raid controller (They used an AHCI onboard raid, not an actual hardware controller.) Then again, that RAID test does reflect what most users are going to have; most won't chuck down another $300 for a high end raid controller too. As I/O performance goes up, cpu utilization ought to go up fairly linearly, which it seemed to do in the non-raid0 case. Either way, it's a promising tech considering their first attempt can match close to the top-end SSD's for both price and performance (about $800 will net you either that thing+a good chunk of ram or intel's new high speed SLC SSD)
"Throw away logic and kick reason to the curb"
