OCZ shows off new glamour shots of super fast PCI-E SSD solution

It’s been something we’ve followed for a few months, now, and OCZ’s new storage solution that mounts several SSD flash modules on a PCI card.  Why use the PCI-Express bus instead of SATA?  The new cards are actually faster than the SATA bus can handle.  SATA’s current starndard is limited to 3.0Gbps, which translates to 375MB/s.  The new devices are rated at speeds up to 878MB/s, or just over 7Gbps.  In other words, pretty fast.

All that speed comes at a cost, though; while OCZ has yet to put out any official pricing strategies, Amazon does have the three drives up for pre-order…at costs ranging from $1561 for the 250GB version all the way up to $3368 for the 1TB version.  Shipping dates are still listed as one to three months, as they have been since the beginning of summer.

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The drives achieve the high speeds by incorporating already speedy flash memory with on-card RAID controllers, emulating what some enthusiasts already do by striping data across multiple cards in a RAID0 configuration.