OCZ Ibis High Speed Data Link (HSDL) 240GB SSD Review

Published by

PC Perspective posted a review on the OCZ Ibis High Speed Data Link (HSDL) 240GB SSD

A quote from the article:

Today we take a look at OCZ's newest offering in next generation Solid State Storage technology, coupled with a completely new take on storage interface technology. When USB3.0 and even SATA 6Gb/sec are not fast enough, just invent something new!

This extension passes via the HSDL cable to the device - in this case the OCZ Ibis we are looking at today. Previous RAID enabled SSD's had to pass through RAID chips via SATA, while the Ibis is able to contain a bona-fide PCIe RAID solution. This is significant as solutions for the former always hit a brick wall on ultimate IOPS performance, as they do not support passing on Comamnd Queueing - vital to high IO's in a RAID configuration. Another point of interest is that the above configuration is the simplest possible with HSDL, as it's meant to scale much further.

Read more