[PR] PhotoFast PowerDrive-LSI PCIe SSD – A Combination of Performance and The Art of Industrial Design

Taipei, Taiwan. Oct. 8th 2010 – PhotoFast Global Inc. a pioneer in creative, high quality and extreme performance flash-based storage manufacturer, today revealed its new line up of PCI-Express SSDs. Relied the new partner in RAID solutions, PhotoFast demand to bring A combination of performance and the art of industrial design.

LSI, one of the leading company in RAID solutions, has come to our mind at the very beginning of our development. We have chosen LSI from many other great companies we have worked with. Offering flexibility in engineering to meet our requirement of Solid State Drives. Thanks to LSI, providing great performance, stability and compatibility to various platforms.

The head of art director, Sam Tang were assigned to this project bring the art of industrial design, to produce a storage device not just a vapidity iron box. Making each of the enclosure by CNC with classic red painting. “I brought those elements of a sports car into this, and hopefully users will like it and say Wow.. when they open the box”, said Sam Tang.

I believe we’ve seen enough press release spread from Japanese medias. Before PowerDrive-LSI hit the retail and online shops, we will be taking Pre-Orders of iPADock until the end of October.

For more information, please visit https://www.photofast.com.tw/HardWareOrder/GM-PowerDrive-LSI-PCIe-SSD.html

Estimated launch date: End of October
MSRP: 240GB for USD 1,670 , 480GB for USD 2360 , 960GB for USD 4,300

• Available in 256GB , 512GB & 1 TB MLC with 512MB DDRII of local cache
• LSI Hardware based RAID controller with x8 PCI-Express 2.0 host bus interface
• Max. write up to 1500MB/s (measured in ATTO benchmarks)
• CNC enclosure in classic red painting
• Total ECC 96 bit / 512byte, RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 6, RAID spans 10, 50 and 60
• Operating System Support: Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2000, XP, Windows Server 2003, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Miracle Linux, Fedora Core, Linux open source driver (32/64-bit), FreeBSD, VMware 3.0.1/3.0.2

Physical Specifications
Weight	980g +/- 10g
*Power supply Voltage	12V, 3.3V ± 5%
Controller	SISAS2108 RAID-on-Chip (ROC) o  800MHz PowerPC®
Host Bus Interface	x8 PCI-Express 2.0
Capacity	256GB / 512GB / 1TB
Data Buffer	512MB  DDR II cache

High Performance (measured in Crystal Disk Mark)
Support NAND Flash		MLC flash supported
Performance	Read		1400MB/s Max. Sequential Read
	Write		1500MB/s Max. Sequential Write

Environmental
Operating Temperature		0°C ~ 70°C
Storage Temperature		-25°C ~ 85°C
Humidity		0°C~55°C / 95% RH, 10cycles
Vibration	Operating	20G Peak
	storage	20G Peak
Shock	Operating	1500G
	storage	1500G