Bring the dedicated SSD slot to the desktop motherboard with a controller that can handle the full speed. Could be similar to the way DIMMs are handled today, including a 128 bit bus.
I can see it on enthusiast boards. It would definitely help bring down the price of SSDs.Reply
mSATA is still limited to 3Gbps or 6Gbps. OCZ's HSDL interconnect is a higher bandwidth solution, though probably costs more than a consumer would be willing to pay.
Most boards already have a slot that can be used for a high-speed SSD though. It's called PCIe.Reply
And PCIe comes with a hefty premium. I would say that for 98% of people, any modern SATA 3Gb/s SSD is more than fine. The difference between this and that SSD is negligible in everyday tasks. Reply
using a PCIe SSD also eats GPU lanes. This 16x limitation on everything other than X58 (and X79 most likely) is quite frustrating with high end cards.Reply
Ultra simple and does exactly what it says it will do.. i currently have 4 SSD's in my Mac Pro mid 2010 model with the Xeon @ 2.8ghz and this saved my SSD's :) You can check in system information under the SATA tab and you will see TRIM = ENABLED !! :) Cheers and kind regards. P.S. Screw you apple for blocking it out for every ssd but yours and yours suck !!! Reply
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Paul Tarnowski - Friday, September 16, 2011 - link
Bring the dedicated SSD slot to the desktop motherboard with a controller that can handle the full speed. Could be similar to the way DIMMs are handled today, including a 128 bit bus.I can see it on enthusiast boards. It would definitely help bring down the price of SSDs. Reply
rhangman - Friday, September 16, 2011 - link
Well there are already boards with mSATA for SSD's. Replybhigh - Friday, September 16, 2011 - link
mSATA is still limited to 3Gbps or 6Gbps. OCZ's HSDL interconnect is a higher bandwidth solution, though probably costs more than a consumer would be willing to pay.Most boards already have a slot that can be used for a high-speed SSD though. It's called PCIe. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Friday, September 16, 2011 - link
And PCIe comes with a hefty premium. I would say that for 98% of people, any modern SATA 3Gb/s SSD is more than fine. The difference between this and that SSD is negligible in everyday tasks. Replyetamin - Saturday, September 17, 2011 - link
using a PCIe SSD also eats GPU lanes. This 16x limitation on everything other than X58 (and X79 most likely) is quite frustrating with high end cards. Replyretrospooty - Monday, September 19, 2011 - link
and what card exactly requires more than PCIe x16?NONE! Reply
Toolius - Friday, September 16, 2011 - link
Hey guys .. there is a nifty little utility called Trim Enabler for OSX..Search for it on google or click on the link below..
http://www.groths.org/?p=308
or
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/37852/trim-enable...
Ultra simple and does exactly what it says it will do.. i currently have 4 SSD's in my Mac Pro mid 2010 model with the Xeon @ 2.8ghz and this saved my SSD's :)
You can check in system information under the SATA tab and you will see TRIM = ENABLED !! :)
Cheers and kind regards.
P.S. Screw you apple for blocking it out for every ssd but yours and yours suck !!! Reply
Kristian Vättö - Saturday, September 17, 2011 - link
You don't really need TRIM with most SSDs due to firmware level garbage collection. Reply