Asus has during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas his first steps on the market for solid state drives. The company demonstrated a ssd with a name like Asus Raidr Express, but still wanted to no details lost on the specifications of the drive.
Asus grabs technologiebeurzen often not just a lot of new products to introduce, but often shows the company is also a new product that is not yet totally ready for introduction. As demonstrated in the company on the previous CES dualsocket motherboards for Sandy Bridge EP processors and was the 2011 Computex show, used to a hybrid board with the 1366 and 2011 socket. This year, demonstrated the Taiwanese manufacturer with a product in a segment which still has no experience; the Raidr Express is a solid state drive.
Since the Raidr Express under the Republic of Gamers flag is released, is the rebrand of an existing 2,5″-ssd is not interesting for Asus. The Raidr Express is a pci-express ssd, which is just as startdrive must be able to serve. The drive has a pci-express x4 interface, which is more bandwidth to offer than a sata-600 interface. Internal would be the drive, as witnessed by its name, are made up of different solid-state modules, which are in raid configuration. This may go to four msata-drives.
According to an Asus spokesperson, opposite, PC, Perspective, the Raidr Express yet this year. The drive is largely productiegereed, but nevertheless keeps Asus tentative secret which controllers and what type of nandgeheugen be used. Of course, it was a quote, nor issued.
