G.Skill's new PCIe SSD cracks 19000 MB/s read speeds

[TacTicToe]

http://gskill.com/en/product/fm-pcx8g2r4-480g

OMG I want one! At $699 though, its a pretty steep price. Might make it a Christmas gift to myself. NewEgg will have them for sale starting next week.

John, any chance of this upgrade on our dedicated boxes?!

[soja]

uh, you mean 1900MB/s, not 19,000...

This is a meh product tbh. It is 4 seperate SSDs(4 different controllers) in a RAID0 config. I'm more excited for the single SSDs that can do 700+MB/s with this interface.

[Vanderburg]

Some of the m.2 stuff looks really good, pushing 1GBps, like Samsung's XP series. I need a Z97 board.

[Edge100x]

I/O speed is not a bottleneck for most game servers and magnetic drives are actually a better choice for most game types, just due to their increased capacities. For the games that do benefit from SSDs (those that perform frequent writes, like Minecraft), there wouldn't be a noticeable benefit gained by using this 1700 MB/s drive versus the 500+ MB/s drives that we currently use, because IOPS is usually the key factor and both types of SSDs easily fit the bill. With no significant gain, a serious price drawback, and a form factor that makes them unusable in most configurations, and it's unlikely that we'll be able to justify including PCIe card-based drives in our dedicated machines.

In the future, SATAe should become more common and at a price point similar to existing SATA3 SSDs. They will likely be the logical next step for general server use.

[soja]

John, out of curiosity, have you seen supermicros "MicroCloud" solutions, allowing 12 or 24 E3 servers in a 3U space? Have you considered using those at all? Seems like it would be a good way to save on shipping costs alone, even if the price eventually is the same as 12 or 24 1U servers.

[Edge100x]

soja, yes, we use their multi-node machines.

[soja]

soja, yes, we use their multi-node machines.

That's cool to know!

Thanks