Four storage drives are configured in an abstract RAID group

Mar 9, 2012 10:35 GMT  ·  By

At this year's CeBIT expo, Super Talent made sure to be present and show off some of its newest and best NAND Flash-based storage devices.

One of the things on show at the company's booth in Hannover, Germany is the RAIDDrive upStream, a sort of middle ground between normal SSDs and PCI Express ones.

Strangely enough, this item is aimed at consumers instead of the enterprise market, even though it uses the PCI Express interface.

It’s not just any PCI Express connection, but the PCI Express 1.1 x8 standard - not the newest, true - but definitely not the slowest either.

The company's aim was to make a PCI Express product that cost less than its peers, while being better and more capacious than SATA units.

Given the read speed of 1 GB/s, the writing rate of 900 MB/s and the capacities of 220 GB, 460 GB and 960 GB, we tend to think that the goal has been successfully attained.

Unfortunately, we can't tell for sure, since the price is still unknown.