14 DAY TRIAL // Some people no doubt thought that Super Talent's RAIDDrive II was overkill, with its read speed of 2,400 MB/s and write speed of 2,800 MB/s, but the company has just one-upped its previous invention by launching the RAIDDrive II Plus PCIe SSD.
We initially thought there was a large chance that Super Talent made a typo or mix-up when it posted the press release, but even on the product page, the read speed is lower than the write.
Which is truly strange because it's usually the other way around, and by a great margin too, unless you're looking at a consumer-oriented SandForce drive, and even then, the write lags behind the read.
Nonetheless, the RAIDDrive II PCI Express solid-state drive really does have an easier time writing data than sharing it, and now the same has become true for its successor, the RAIDDrive II Plus.
The newcomer reaches 2,600 MB/s read and 2,800 MB/s write, over the PCI Express generation 2 x8 lane host interface.
The on-board DDR2 SDRAM memory of 1 GB capacity helps a lot with that. It's a special type of cache with ECC protection (error correcting code).
The architecture of the drive also provides NVRAM for RAID configurations support, a transaction log, and a redundant flash image for adapter availability.
A system status indicator exists as well, a global HDD activity/fault connector, SMTP support for email notifications, SNMP support for remote management, and an alarm buzzer.
All in all, the Super Talent RAIDDrive II Plus PCIe solid-state drive measure 231.5 x 94.0 x 20.6 mm / 9.11 x 3.7 x 0.81 inches.
Unfortunately, Super Talent did not share the price of the RAIDDrive II Plus PCIe SSD, although it did say that they there would be three capacities: 480 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB (1.6 TB RAID 5 mode).