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Four X25-E Extreme SSDs Combined In Hardware RAID

Posted by kdawson on from the that's-no-hard-drive dept.

theraindog writes "Intel's X25-E Extreme SSD is easily the fastest flash drive on the market, and contrary to what one might expect, it actually delivers compelling value if you're looking at performance per dollar rather than gigabytes. That, combined with a rackmount-friendly 2.5" form factor and low power consumption make the drive particularly appealing for enterprise RAID. So just how fast are four of them in a striped array hanging off a hardware RAID controller? The Tech Report finds out, with mixed but at times staggeringly impressive results."

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  1. Actually, that RAID card seems more interesting by the_humeister · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A 1.2 GHz processor with 256 DDR2 memory? Holy crap! That's faster than my new Celeron 220! And the perennial quesion: can this thing run Linux?

  2. What I want to see by XanC · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is 4 of these in a RAID-1, running a seek-heavy database. Nobody does this benchmark, unfortunately.