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OCZ IBIS Introduces High Speed Data Link SSDs
Vigile writes "New solid state drives are released all the time, and the performance improvements on them have started to stagnate as the limits of the SATA 3.0 Gb/s are reached. SATA 6G drives are still coming out and some newer PCI Express based drives are also available for those users with a higher budget. OCZ is taking it another step with a new storage interface called High Speed Data Link (HSDL) that extends the PCI Express bus via mini-SAS cables and removes the bottleneck of SATA-based RAID controllers thus increasing theoretical performance and allowing the use of command queueing — vital to high IO's in a RAID configuration. PC Perspective has a full performance review that details the speed and IO improvements and while initial versions will be available at up to 960 GB (and a $2800 price tag), in reality, the cost-per-GB is competitive with other high-end SSDs when you get to the 240GB and above options"
Why not just go SAS?
Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA
DA, DBA, SysAdmin, Data Modeller
GNU Project, Debian GNU/Lin
You sure done fucked that one up, Sparky. The SATA 6Gb/s works out at about 768MB/s, which while decent, isn't good enough for many different uses. SATA 1.5Gb/s is only just over 140MB/s, something easily surpassed these days.
I wonder how you know your SATA setup isn't at fault?
Most people don't have SAS in their machines. And even if they did, 6Gb/s isn't enough for a lot of people.