OWC intros new line of SSDs

[Black]

C(-)ris wrote:
Ordered two! Should be fun.

Ordered 6! Not sure what I'll do with them yet.

[jdc]

barefeats did a RAID with 8 6 Gbps SSDs -- close to 2700 MB/ps

http://barefeats.com/ssd6g05.html

[RAMd®d]

I'm in for a baker's dozen. I also got a like amount of Extreme SSDs for A/B and long term comparison.

What I don't use will go to stocking stuffers for the kiddies in December.


I'm curious-- what are "Prosumer Applications" and "Professional Grade Performance"?

[bazookaman]

RAMd®d wrote:
I'm curious-- what are "Prosumer Applications" and "Professional Grade Performance"?

The technical term is "Corporate Mumbo Jumbo".

[anonymouse1]

Anything to do with the highly critical Macworld review of their earlier SSDs?

[OWC Larry]

First off - Price will keep coming down on Flash drives as time goes on. The cost of flash NAND is why these cost so much. Higher density NAND also costs more than lower density making the higher capacity cost more since you can't just keep adding chips- can have so many NAND modules per controller channel.

Next - USB3... we're testing a couple of the newer chipsets to see if we can't get something out there to really kick it up for external performance. Controller/Adapter (computer host) side is probably the biggest slow down though at the moment.

Next - Lightpeak... it's in infancy and is not what most think it is. It is, imho, better than what most may have in mind... but it's also expensive and overly complex right now. And there is a reason there aren't any peripherals or even a cable out there yet for it. Now... IMHO, next year will be pretty exciting for LP and further - i am glad it is there now so we've got this future for it.

Next... mumbo jumbo? There are productivity applications and there are production applications. Most production applications like Photoshop, Logic, etc - work with data that is incompressible. The EXTREME Pro uses Sync flash which allows for substantially higher data rates on the incompressible data types. For most users, the Electra is more than adequate... All of our SSDs are super fast. But for someone pounding away in, for example, Photoshop all day long - the EXTREME 6G model offers a real benefit.

These are the future.