New SSD from ADATA reaching 1.8GB/s (SATA Express)!

Well this is both interesting and a little bit humourus if you ask me. The new upcoming ADATA SSD with the upcoming Sandforce controller (codename Griffin) have insane specs. 1.8GB/s Sequential Write and Read, A whopping 200 000 IOPS 4K!!!
The fastest SSD out now can reach 550MB/s and have 100 000 IOPS.

It comes with the NGFF/mSATA form factor, so its ready for SATA-Express (coming out in 2014). SATA Express can support up to 2GB/s, which this new SSD is really close to reaching max speed. LOL.

This is a glimps of what we can expect with SATA-Express. Sick performance :thumbsup:

ADATA with NGFF form factor:


The specifications:


Images from SSD Review blog which has a quick blurb about it.

 

Strangly little activity in this thread.

1800MB/s and double 4K speed doesn`t excite people?

 

Hey Cloud

Yeah a bit silent over here. I too posted a few times here but got lazy answers
Anyway this new interface is using 4 pci express links (500mb/s x 4). And the best part is that the standard is compatible for devices other than storage too
Gigabit wlan anyone?

 

They are some astounding specs! Just conjecture on my part but the word SanForce which in some people's minds equals unreliable may be a factor in the dearth of posts here.

 

While it may be the SF 'inside' that is keeping the comments away, I think it is more the fact that nobody has an NGFF equipped platform to play with yet.

This is the future and any upgrades that are done to desktops and notebooks in the next few months are going to be sideways moves compared to the real upgrade a properly spec'd platform should deliver.


Effectively RAID0 performance for not only sequential R/W's - but also for the Random R/W's too.


Now, all we need is decent power consumption numbers (at idle and at load) and EVERYTHING I have currently will become obsolete overnight (like it did in 2006 with Conroe...).


Just hope the manufacturers put in more than 2 of these ports into their notebooks (and the capacity is at least 1TB or more...) - a single point of failure (i.e. a single data 'bay') is not my idea of true progress...




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Like tiller said, people are weary of anything SF inside. I mean, at least 50% of the SSD models out there is some flavour of Sandforce, its practically viral. I for one am also extremely tired of seeing swarms of new SSDs with "SF inside" since it dashes my hopes that the drive is going to use a truly different controller. I don't consider anything a true implementation of SF if it isn't Intel, without the rigorous validation, companies are basically trying to cash in on the SF performance bandwagon without the responsibility of providing a stable, reliable device. I mean, say what you will about Samsung or Micron but their controllers and firmware are rock stable even though they aren't as viral SF.

 

I, and I reckon many others, are quiet because.... I have no idea what to do with those sorts of speeds I think nothing more than copy to/from the same drive can use anything close to that really. (in a laptop that is)
I have two HDD/SSD slots, but even then I see no use of 3Gbps sequentials.

Random IOPS are cool though, but except for lower latency, none of us are likely to notice it.

My 2ceeeeeents.....

 

Me too, I don't know what to do with those speeds

 

Awesome tech. SATA Express is basically an SSD acting as a PCI-express card but retains backward compatibility?

 

I'm really interested on this ssds, not much for my laptop as I don have ports for them, but my gene VI does.... I just would like to see some estimation into when will they hit retail.