Colossus 3.5-in SSD Combines Quad Controllers

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday November 22, 2009 @06:12AM from the going-for-the-gusto dept.

Vigile writes "The new Colossus SSD comes in capacities starting at 256GB and going all the way up to 1TB in a standard 3.5-in hard drive form factor. This larger size was required because the drive actually integrates not one but four Indilinx SSD controllers and three total RAID controllers in a nested RAID-0 array. All of this goodness combines to create an incredibly fast drive that beats most other options in terms of write speeds and is competitive in read tests as well. Using some custom 'garbage collection' firmware, the drive works around the fact that TRIM commands aren't supported in RAID configurations to maintain high speeds through the life of the SSD."

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Test 4x Raid Intel 160GB G2 by llZENll · 2009-11-22 15:26 · Score: 0, Redundant

Why did not they not test a RAID with an Intel and OCZ drive with different controllers so you can actually compare if buying this $3000 SSD is better than buying $3000 normal SSDs and creating your own RAID array? Perhaps the garbage collection issue? Still it would be good to see.