@lenoat702 - Now available on Superbiiz (dot) com and other resellers. Click on "Where to Buy" on our home page to find a full list of SuperTalent resellers.
@kaisersahin -- it is available now but very popular and some capacities are already back ordered. I am hearing that the RC8 50GB is going for about $230. If you need portability and speed, it is the best thing going.
@dhowser2008 -- That price sounds about right. This drive has great performance and is portable. Portability is your one word answer. I am installing Ubuntu on it right now. It is going to fly.
I was in a great mood as I'd finally found one. And now its out of date and half as good and more expensive. Kinda less happy now. Much less happy. That's some weird and questionable marketing you guys do. Super Talent? For what exactly?
@fohat50 -- The Express Ram Cache (ERC) is a great drive and much less expensive than the RC8. The ERC is 4 channel and it has a real caching system, which will enable it to improve performance will all kinds of data. The RC8 is eight channels and uses the SandForce Write Acceleration feature to act as virtual cache. It works really well as long as your data is compressible. I like them both and use both. My ERC is my Ceedo drive too. I love it. It looks like the ERC is about $80 cheaper
@gosupertalent -- Good news. The 64GB ERC is much faster than the one I used in the Ceedo demo. It should be working quite nicely for you. Chime in on the Forum and let us know how you like it now.
@gosupertalent I was in a bad mood look wasn't I cause there is nothing bad to be said about that kit, its awesome. and shiny. 32 ram cache does what it should and 64GB is roomy and its fast and its damn near as pretty as me. and with ceedo (using the trial now, but will buy for certain) the best combination of hardware and software i've seen in a long time and the design is truly futuristic. I love it.
so i just bought the 64GB express RAM cache. In the UK nearest one I could find was Germany. So, now I see you just released the same product but twice as fast and twice as big and looking like half the price nearly. Why am I paying more for the old inferior product? Its been damn near impossible to find one and no chance of the Ceedo bundle so that's gonna be full price. Don't see anywhere selling the new one ( u know the twice as good but cheaper one) Why am I paying more for the old product?
@fohat50 -- If I were to name the Express RAM Cache (ERC) again, I would call it the RC4. It has a RAM Cache but 4 channels of flash. Plenty good drive. It is significantly less money than the RC8 and the RC4 is actually about 7mm shorter.... that said, our Ceedo bundle will work on any of our USB 3.0 drives and in fact, I have run it on both the RC8 and ERC. It absolutely flies. I am fortunate enough to have both drives but if I was spending my own hard earned cash, its a toss up.
@byteusa - a great question. Currently USB 3.0 is not supported at boot. We might need to wait until next year for that. When we can, it looks like this one would boot at over 200MB/s but ... if booting is your goal, perhaps the RC8 is still the answer. This drive hits some of the best USB 2.0 scores that I have ever seen. 4K Random reads at 38.5MB/s!!!; that's at least 5-8x faster than a hard drive!!!
@byteusa -- Someday this will be the case as this drive is bootable. Booting at USB 3.0 speeds is not possible yet, but the USB 2.0 performance of this drive is amazing. The 8channels of flash and write acceleration feature (acting as virtual cache) enable this drive to fill the USB 2.0 bus. With 43..5MB/s Reads and 38.5MB/s RANDOM Writes. There is nothing else like it to date.
@kaisersahin Not quite sure what you mean by upgradable controller. This is the SF-1222. It is a great controller but their entry level. It delivers great performance and helps keep the price low. This is really a fun drive - runs cool too.
Serveral people asked me about how this drive would perform in a USB 2.0 port, so I tested it live in Taipei. The USB 2.0 performance is amazing. It fills the USB 2.0 bus to levels I did not know were possible. Small block performance on USB 2.0 is almost non-existent but this drive hits 38MB/s on reads and writes in USB 2.0
Still waiting on final word on pricing. I expecting something very similar to a SandForced SSD price; this is not your parent's flash drive but an SSD. Come see this drive at Computex Taipei this week. If you can't make it, be on the look out for the reviews to start appearing from the show.
Where do I buy it?
lenoat702 7 months ago
@lenoat702 - Now available on Superbiiz (dot) com and other resellers. Click on "Where to Buy" on our home page to find a full list of SuperTalent resellers.
gosupertalent 7 months ago
@kaisersahin -- it is available now but very popular and some capacities are already back ordered. I am hearing that the RC8 50GB is going for about $230. If you need portability and speed, it is the best thing going.
gosupertalent 7 months ago
Its costs $230.00 CAD for the 50GB; I can buy an 64GB SSD for that price; why would anyone pay that price for a stick?
dhowser2008 7 months ago
@dhowser2008 -- That price sounds about right. This drive has great performance and is portable. Portability is your one word answer. I am installing Ubuntu on it right now. It is going to fly.
gosupertalent 7 months ago
I was in a great mood as I'd finally found one. And now its out of date and half as good and more expensive. Kinda less happy now. Much less happy. That's some weird and questionable marketing you guys do. Super Talent? For what exactly?
fohat50 7 months ago
@fohat50 -- The Express Ram Cache (ERC) is a great drive and much less expensive than the RC8. The ERC is 4 channel and it has a real caching system, which will enable it to improve performance will all kinds of data. The RC8 is eight channels and uses the SandForce Write Acceleration feature to act as virtual cache. It works really well as long as your data is compressible. I like them both and use both. My ERC is my Ceedo drive too. I love it. It looks like the ERC is about $80 cheaper
gosupertalent 7 months ago
@gosupertalent -- Good news. The 64GB ERC is much faster than the one I used in the Ceedo demo. It should be working quite nicely for you. Chime in on the Forum and let us know how you like it now.
gosupertalent 7 months ago
@gosupertalent I was in a bad mood look wasn't I cause there is nothing bad to be said about that kit, its awesome. and shiny. 32 ram cache does what it should and 64GB is roomy and its fast and its damn near as pretty as me. and with ceedo (using the trial now, but will buy for certain) the best combination of hardware and software i've seen in a long time and the design is truly futuristic. I love it.
fohat50 7 months ago
so i just bought the 64GB express RAM cache. In the UK nearest one I could find was Germany. So, now I see you just released the same product but twice as fast and twice as big and looking like half the price nearly. Why am I paying more for the old inferior product? Its been damn near impossible to find one and no chance of the Ceedo bundle so that's gonna be full price. Don't see anywhere selling the new one ( u know the twice as good but cheaper one) Why am I paying more for the old product?
fohat50 7 months ago
@fohat50 -- If I were to name the Express RAM Cache (ERC) again, I would call it the RC4. It has a RAM Cache but 4 channels of flash. Plenty good drive. It is significantly less money than the RC8 and the RC4 is actually about 7mm shorter.... that said, our Ceedo bundle will work on any of our USB 3.0 drives and in fact, I have run it on both the RC8 and ERC. It absolutely flies. I am fortunate enough to have both drives but if I was spending my own hard earned cash, its a toss up.
gosupertalent 7 months ago
So.. I can boot windows from this as a secondary partition, then delete my primary HDD partition and be flying on a magic USB stick?
byteusa 8 months ago
@byteusa - a great question. Currently USB 3.0 is not supported at boot. We might need to wait until next year for that. When we can, it looks like this one would boot at over 200MB/s but ... if booting is your goal, perhaps the RC8 is still the answer. This drive hits some of the best USB 2.0 scores that I have ever seen. 4K Random reads at 38.5MB/s!!!; that's at least 5-8x faster than a hard drive!!!
gosupertalent 8 months ago
@byteusa -- Someday this will be the case as this drive is bootable. Booting at USB 3.0 speeds is not possible yet, but the USB 2.0 performance of this drive is amazing. The 8channels of flash and write acceleration feature (acting as virtual cache) enable this drive to fill the USB 2.0 bus. With 43..5MB/s Reads and 38.5MB/s RANDOM Writes. There is nothing else like it to date.
gosupertalent 7 months ago
wow
ThaLaoGuy 8 months ago
@kaisersahin Not quite sure what you mean by upgradable controller. This is the SF-1222. It is a great controller but their entry level. It delivers great performance and helps keep the price low. This is really a fun drive - runs cool too.
gosupertalent 8 months ago
Serveral people asked me about how this drive would perform in a USB 2.0 port, so I tested it live in Taipei. The USB 2.0 performance is amazing. It fills the USB 2.0 bus to levels I did not know were possible. Small block performance on USB 2.0 is almost non-existent but this drive hits 38MB/s on reads and writes in USB 2.0
If you want to boot to USB, this is your drive!!
gosupertalent 9 months ago
100. Gig. Thumbdrive.
I know what I'm getting for my birthday. B3
WarriorPrime9000 9 months ago
Still waiting on final word on pricing. I expecting something very similar to a SandForced SSD price; this is not your parent's flash drive but an SSD. Come see this drive at Computex Taipei this week. If you can't make it, be on the look out for the reviews to start appearing from the show.
gosupertalent 9 months ago
Just as I started to save up a little money, you have to do this to me. How much is this thing going to cost me?
CeedoPortableApps 9 months ago
Awesome guys!
Love your products, keep it up.
UltraVert 9 months ago