Asus has solid state drive with pci-expressinterface ge lwa site. The company showed the if been half a year ago in Las Vegas during CES, but has the Republic of Gamers ssd only now ready.
The Raidr Express, such as Asus ssd card calls, the Republic of Gamers flag released: the ssd is intended for overclockers and gamers. The ssd should work with both the modern uefi-version of the old bios as the older, traditional bios versions. Midddels a physical switch the two modes can be switched: Asus calls the technology DuoMode Support.
The ssd has a capacity of 240GB, which consists of the mlc-nandgeheugen from Toshiba. The 19nm chips are controlled by two SandForce 2281 controllers that the memory with up to 830MB/s read and up to 810MB/s can describe. The Raidr Express can be up to 100,000 iops for both read and write. The interface with the rest of the system consists of two pci expresslanes.
Asus provides the drive with additional software to be a part of frequently used data to the ssd to write, but to the working memory. According to Asus, would that RAMDisk-software speeds up to 12,000 MB/s. In addition, the pci-e ssd with HybriDisk-software as a caching drive for a traditional hard drive.
The drive would be about two weeks in the Netherlands should be available and should be around 340 euro. About the availability of any larger capacities could Asus have not provide any information.