Super Talent unveils staggeringly fast RAIDed SSD

Super Talent has been offering a line of SSDs for upgrading netbooks and other computers for a while now. We talked about the Super Talent SSD upgrade for the Eee line of netbooks back in June. Super Talent is back with an announcement of a new line of storage devices called the RAIDDrive SSD.

The RAIDDrive SSD has four different SATA SSDs in one aluminum enclosure and offers speeds greater than the SSD drive can achieve on its own. The device plugs into an available PCIe port on the mainboard of a computer and promises impressive levels of performance.



Super Talent claims that the RAIDDrive SSD supports sequential read speeds of up to 1.4GB/sec and sequential write speeds of up to 1.2GB/sec. The SSD has 1GB of DRAM cache to speed operations. The highest capacity RAIDDrive that is currently available has 2TB of storage inside.

Super Talent will offer three different models in the line with the ES for enterprise servicer with capacities up to 1TB configured in RAID 0 or RAID 5. The WS model is for workstation users and has 1TB of storage in RAID 0 or RAID 5. The GS model is for gamers and enthusiasts and can be had in up to 2TB capacity in RAID 0 or RAID 5. The GS model will sell for a staggering $US4,999 ($AUD5812) in the 1TB capacity.