Cenatek Rocket Drive SSD Review.
By Rick E.J (
http://cyberwizardpit.net/reviewscrda.htm)
Introduction
Its amazing to see how Computing technology has evolved, who would have thought just a few years ago that Processors have now reached speeds of more than 2.4GHz. It doesnt end here either, with INTEL and AMD hot on the heels of each other, we should be able to see 3GHz processor for the consumer by the end of the year. While all this technology and advancement is good, there is however one thing that has left me intrigued. As Processors and supporting Platforms gets faster by the day, there's no significant or real improvement to Hardisks where all the data is accessed, stored and written on or plainly put, the heart and datacenter of any system. So lets ask ourselves, what is the use of all this speed when the most an average 7,200rpm ATA100 or 133 Storage Device can only churn out a max of 40MBps sec of Data where the real bottleneck is. Speaking of ATA133 or UDMA 6, the latter is nothing but a marketing hype that Storage Device Manufacturers wants you to believe and trust me, if you compared between ATA66, 100 and 133, you will find that there's almost no difference in performance. Another thing to take consideration into is that all Hardisks detoriates with time in terms of performance and speed which is commonly referred to as fragmentation. From Casual Users to System Admins, no one is immune from going thru the long and tedious process of defragmentation. Lastly but not least, all Hardisk contains moving mechanical parts like Spindles, Disks, Servos and from an engineering viewpoint, anything that consists of mechanical moving parts are subjected to wear and tear that will eventually lead to failure.
Cenatek Rocket Drive SSD
CENATEK which has its headquarter in Morgan Hill, Calif. in the Silicon Valley, actively develops advanced, high-speed storage technologies including the infamous software RamDisks, that emulates the functionality of a Hardisk with system RAM. Its Rocket Drive is the industry?s fastest solid state disk (SSD) storage devices that is designed & strives to remove the harddisk input/output (I/O) bottleneck that throttles the speed of major applications. Being PCI bus-attached enables the Rocket Drive to operate at high performance bus speeds, while other storage devices are constrained by the I/O and transfer speeds of the channel connection. Rocket Drive uses its onboard RAM to store data, it does not cannibalize existing system memory nor is it a memory expansion card. This is a fully fledged drive.
more nfo here:
http://www.cenatek.com/product_rocketdrive.cfm
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