Angelbird is a newcomer among SSD makers and the British company has presented an interesting storage solution called Wings. It’s a PCIe x4 circuit board that comes with 16GB or 32GB integrated storage, but also room for connecting up to four regular SSD unis.
Angelbird uses an integrated RAID controller that can connect the four units in RAID 0 and via the company’s own integrated Virtue operating system it looks like a regular bootable harddrive in both Windows and OS X.
“Until now PCIe SSD solutions have been only available to the enterprisemarket, or were limited in that they only ran on certain operating systems or were fixed in size. The bootable Wings card changes the game, yet again, by booting on Windows, Linux and OSX, or allows peaceful coexistence and integration of all of the above on the same system, whether it is a PC or a Mac Pro.”
Angelbird says that the idea is to connect four SandForce SF1200 based SSDs to the circuit board and in that way rach data speds up to 1,081 MB/s read and 945 MB/s write.
The company says that this is a cost efficient solution for upgrading your storage solution and prices start at 200€ for a unit with 16GB integrated Intel NAND flash.
Source: Angelbird
