Holy Crap!!! HyperDrive4
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:49 am
http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/
HyperDrive4 (Revision 3) - 16GB max
£1195 $2325 (US)
Here's the kicker:The HyperDrive4 is the fastest Internal Hard Disk in the World. It does 44,000 random read and write balanced 0.5KB file Inputs and Outputs per second as measured by Intel's IOmeter Benchmark).
If that doesn't solve your IO bottleneck nothing will!
8000x faster at finding files than a 10,000 rpm SATA WD Raptor WD740ADFD
5500x faster at finding files than a 15,000 rpm SAS Seagate Savvio or Maxtor Atlas 15k II SAS drive
125x faster at serving files than a WD Raptor, certainly the fastest SATA drive on the market.
110x faster at serving files than any 15,000 rpm U320 SCSI or SAS drive.
700x faster at serving and receiving files than the latest Samsung laptop flash drives.
Gives the user an instant desktop.
The HyperDrive4 is a Solid State disk made not from Flash RAM but from DDR. DDR is hundreds of times faster than Flash RAM. Flash drives are considerably slower than WD Raptors! The latest Samsung 16GB and 32GB laptop flash drives have a read access time of 190 microseconds which is 40x faster than a Raptor and this of course is the figure that journalists and resellers quote. But they have a write access time of 41.6 milliseconds, which is 5x slower than a Raptor, and that is the figure that techies discover.
The HyperDrive4 has a read access time of 1100 nanoseconds and a write access time of 250 nanoseconds (as measured by Data Transit's Bus Doctor). So putting this in its unspoken perspective, the HyperDrive4 is 184,000x faster than the latest Samsung NAND flash laptop drives in write access time. The latest 10,000 rpm SATA hard disks have read and write access times of 8 milliseconds (seek time + spindle latency). And the latest 15,000 rpm SAS hard disks manage a very creditable 5.5ms access time (read and write). Average spindle latency is 3 ms for a 10,000 rpm drive and 2ms for a 15,000 rpm drive.
The HyperDrive4 has a uniform Sustained Transfer Rate of 126 MB per second (as measured by HDTach), whereas the WD740ADFD Raptor has an average STR of 77 MB per second, and the 15,000 rpm Seagate-Maxtor Atlas manages 98 MB per second STR.
It serves and receives 100% random 1KB files at the rate of 35,000 per second, 125x faster (as measured by Intel Corporation's IOmeter Benchmark) than a Western Digital WD740ADFD Raptor (275 IOPS, 100% Random 50% Read 50% write IOMeter) and 110x faster than any U320 SCSI or SAS drive (325 IOPS). This is 700x faster than the latest Samsung laptop flash drives (48 IOPS, 100% Random 50% Read 50% write IOMeter).
The HyperDrive4 is Bootable.
It connects just like a Hard Disk or a CDROM.
CDROM drive form factor. It fits into a standard 5.25" CD bay.
It Does not require any drivers.
IDE/PATA and SATA connectors
ATA133 UDMA6 bus
Solid state technology
Takes up to 8 DDR1 Registered ECC memory sticks up to 2GB per stick.
External power connector so that is keeps data when PC is turned off
Battery backup connector so that is keeps data in the event of a power cut
UPS can be added to external power supply or to battery connectors for long power cuts
Very Low power Sleep mode automatically activated when PC power is lost
Seek time is 1100 nanoseconds read/250 nanoseconds write
I/O capability for 100% Random 1K files is 35,000 per second.
S.M.A.R.T. compliant
Works in all RAID configurations
100% secure file deletion (disconnect both the external and the internal power!) Hard disks suffer from magentic remnance and so retain data even after it has been overwritten several times! But the HyperDrive4 is forensically wiped every time power is fully disconnected.
Modular expandable design. You can start with 1GB if you like and build up to 16GB at your leisure.
Formats Instantly
Never needs to be defragged, since it is a Random Access Device.
The HyperDrive4 is quite simply a Hard Disk made out of DRAM. It therefore connects and performs like an impossibly fast Hard Disk.
Gramophone free design - no mechanics, pure silicon! So no head crashes!
Revision 3 decreases the seek time from 40 microseconds to 1100 nanoseconds read and 250 nanoseconds write. This makes the HyperDrive4 125 times faster than the best SATA hard disk drives. It also reduces the power consumption by 30% and employs gold plated DIMM sockets for maximum reliability.
System Requirements:
Minimum Specification: AMD k6+ or Intel Pentium. A spare IDE/PATA or SATA connection. A spare 5.25" CD Rom bay.
Software Requirements: Compatable with any Operating System.
RAM Requirements: The RAM sticks must be Registered ECC DDR1, 100 MHz or above. The speed of the DDR1 sticks has no effect on HyperDrive4 performance. We run them all at 100 MHz. The 16GB unit takes up to 8 x 2GB sticks.
The HyperDrive4 has 2 banks of 4 RAM slots. These banks should be filled from the outside of the board inwards. You can put 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 sticks in each bank. Do not mix different sized memory sticks in the same bank! For example you can have 3 x 2GB sticks in one bank and 2 x 4GB sticks in the other, if you like.
HyperDrive4 (Revision 3) - 16GB max
£1195 $2325 (US)