By Philip Churchill on September 02nd, 2011
100GB SSD with a 1TB hard drive on a PCI Express card
OCZ have announced a hard drive hybrid, comprising a 100GB SSD with a 1TB hard drive on a PCI Express card for $499
This combo uses OCZ’s Dataplex caching software which allows the most frequently used "hot" data to stay on the ultra-fast SSD, whilst the "cold" data remains on the larger capacity HDD and as this is a PCIe card it also eliminates the SATA bottleneck allowing up to 910MB/s bandwidth and up to 120,000 IOPS (4K random write).
A nice combination for Windows Home Server but at $499 – What’s your take on this?
You can read the full press release here.
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as one commonly accesses the whs trough the up-to-gblan only connection anyways, i don’t think there’s much need for it.
i repurposed an old ssd for the boot drive, and use the hdd for the storage stuff. works great, and costs are near-nothing.
but it would be a nice drive if not for being an ocz drive (they’re the worst in the ssd industry in terms of reliability and actual performance compared to what they stated it delivers).