Mushkin planning a 4TB SSD for $500

[Demigod Mac]

http://techreport.com/news/29583/mushkin-previews-a-500-4tb-ssd-at-ces

How do you increase drive capacity further when your controller tops out at 2TB? By using JBOD. To construct a 4TB drive, Mushkin is basically putting two Reactor 2TB SSDs on a single PCB. Those drives are then joined into a JBOD with a separate controller. This dual-drive solution will function as a single volume, but spanning drives isn't without its costs. Mushkin tells us to expect random read and write performance of about 10K IOPS. This jumbo-sized Reactor could do well in applications that tend to be heavy on sequential workloads, like video recording or bulk media storage.

This formidably sized drive hasn't been formally named just yet, but we do know that it may be relatively affordable. Mushkin is targeting a $500 price point for this massive SSD when it becomes available after the release of the Reactor 2TB.

Think this drive would be nice for a cMP's SATA II bays?

10,000 IOPS isn't good but it still runs rings around spinner drives.

 

[Bytehoven]

The question for me... does it use compression to achieve faster data I/O? If yes, it will be a poor choice for large compressed digital video files which don't much room for additional compression. I learned this lesson the hard way buying the SanDisk Extreme II SSDs instead of the more expensive PRO version, eventually replacing them with Samsung EVO 850 SSDs.

That said... (8x) of these 4TB SSDs in a RAID0 or RAID5 would be pretty awesome.

 

[h9826790]

It seems they will use the SM2246EN controller. Anyone know if this controller speed up by compressing the data?

 

[Bytehoven]

comment removed do to conflicting sources.

 

[666sheep]

It seems they will use the SM2246EN controller. Anyone know if this controller speed up by compressing the data?

Seems it does not: http://www.pcper.com/news/Storage/S...A-SSD-controller-promises-lower-power-mobile-

4TB for $500 sounds very good. In EU it will be ~600 EUR I guess.