OCZ IBIS 240GB SSD - The OCZ IBIS as tested today will pass 700 MB/sec in both read and write performance. It is so fast that it is nearly sickening. Readjja

Eventually I need to step up to a larger SSD for FSX and my other games. This one looks awesome, but the price is prohibitive for me.

Eventually I need to step up to a larger SSD for FSX and my other games.  This one looks awesome, but the price is prohibitive for me.

A sign of things to come perhaps. :Drooling:jja

Upsides:

1. Over 700 MBytes/Sec sustained read and write, and
2. Up to almost 1 TBy size.

Downsides:

1. Proprietary interface to connect to a required PCIe card,
2. Uses 4x PCIe Lanes (with PCIe already a bottleneck for FSX CPU to GPU data transfer), and
3. Uses 13% od CPU (presumably of a single core) to process the I/O over PCIe,
4. Does not implement the TRIM command (could slow down the drive as it fills-up, but data writing is not a factor in flight simming anyway.)

Internally the drive is really 4 drives in RAID0 configuration, so perhaps similar speeds can be reached via 4 regular RAID3 SSDs in RAID0 configuration, while 2x (2 drives in RAID0) might be even faster? (One array for Windos and FSX, the other for scenery).Cheers,- jahman.