this changes everything it's it's it's kind of like uh it's kind of like this
product in that respect it changes everything again SSD technology is
moving so fast that it's almost impossible to keep up with it so we
started out with simple ssds 2 and 1/2 in drives and honestly you know what
performance wasn't great it wasn't even really in a lot of situations as good as
a traditional mechanical hard drive so that's where we started then we got high
performance ssds when Intel released their x25 series indel links released
their Barefoot controller and all of a sudden ssds whoo now they're affordable
now they're way faster than a hard drive then from there we got even higher
performance ssds and now with the sandforce controller the Intel Gen 2
controller as well as crucial's latest controller we're running into the limits
of the SATA 3 GB per second interface now crucial doesn't worry about that so
much because their SSD actually uses SATA 6 gbit per second but SAA 6 gbit
per second isn't even really mainstream yet and not everybody has a controller
for that so some companies are coming out with some innovative solutions uh
including ocz with their Revo Drive series of D of uh ssds where they
actually use a PCI Express interface to plug in SSD directly into your
motherboard but there's also another way
so check this out this is the Ibis or
Ibis I actually don't know how to say it I'm not going to worry too much much about it because the name is not the
cool thing the cool thing is this card
right here because the SSD isn't even well it's neat but it's not quite that
neat and this is what's important about it right there so SATA there you go so
SATA is what are they saying 1.5 uh oh
no they're saying it's what 3 gbit per second okay and then SAS SAS is up to
about 6 gbit per second right now
hsdl so that is I think it stands for highspeed data link or something like
that anyway this is capable of almost 20
20 gbit per second so that means that we
can take four sandforce controllers remember sandforce controller is almost
able to max out a SATA 3 gbit per second
connection we can take up to four of those at a time plug them in with the
hsdl cable directly into our hsdl card
and we can get just unheard of performance so let's go ahead and open
up the box on ocz's Cutting Edge
high-speed data link hey I got it right interface and it is the answer to the
SATA bottleneck and the driving force behind the Ibis SSD so the SSD runs off
of internal raid zero so that's how they're able to take four controllers so
that is four sand Force controllers they put them all together here let me just
see if I can get this opened up here
my SSD is faster than your hard drive darn right it is this SSD is faster than
a good number of hard drives together I'll tell you that much so there it is
that is the Ibis hsdl 3 and 1 half in solid state drive so you can see on the
side we have your standard 3 and 1/2 in mounting holes this is your standard 3
and 1/2 in form factor we have your standard 3 and 1/2 in mounting holes on
the back on the bottom rather standard 3 and a half inch mounting holes on the
other side we have a QC pass so that means that it did pass the QC and on the
back we have a St oh we have a standard
bloody well nothing actually no we do actually we have a standard SATA SATA
power okay so you can actually power this with your normal power supply and
then we have an hsdl connection right there so it actually looks kind of like
an sff 887 Cable in fact I think it uses
one but that's definitely like not a that's a non-standard pin out for sure
okay so you plug that right in there that's nice and that is the
equivalent of several SATA 6 gigabit per
second connections so you go ahead it comes with a nice little sleeved cable
here you can see the individual wires inside there they're kind of silvery and
look all nice okay and then you go ahead
and plug that guy into this little card
right here and this is where the magic happens because this card
is a controller card now you can buy an IDE controller you can buy a SATA
controller you can buy a SAS controller or if you want to oh I dropped it wow
okay or if you want to have the most Cutting Edge performance possible you
can buy this controller so here it is it
looks real simple doesn't it basically what they're doing is they're taking a
PCI Express 4X interface they're using
the simplest possible card as you can
clearly see to deliver as much of that
performance as possible directly into your SSD drive so you just go ahead
remove the little uh stopper right there
the stopper the you unplug the top of
the bottle that unleashes the power the
power so you go ahead use one of your PCI Express 4X or higher remember you
can plug this into an 8x or a 16x connector on your motherboard plug that
in like that run that drive or wherever the heck you feel like it and boom you
have performance that is Untouchable with any other solution on the market at
this time and probably for a while although the the way SSD per the way SSD
performance is increasing like every time you stop and take a breath who
knows what is coming down the line now I just want to see the overall specs yeah
nice so Max performance is reads up to
740 mbes per second with rights up to
690 megabytes per second and with up to
100,000 4K random right iops holy smokes
thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the OCC Ibis Ibis
hopefully someone can correct me on that as well as their
hsdl interface card don't forget to
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