Re:The OpenSSD Project (2011)
by mdip on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @03:31PM
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Is it possible to buy a reference board like the one described in http://www.openssd-project.org/wiki/Jasmine_OpenSSD_Platform
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Surprisingly, it looks like you might be able to:
http://crz-mart.com/shop/shopdetail.html?branduid=1914659&xc...
The price is equivalent to about $2000 USD, though, and the controller is completely obsolete nowadays. (I'd be surprised if the Barefoot controller is still in production; it's SATA2 only, and OCZ - parent company of Indilinx - went bankrupt in 2014.)
Re:The OpenSSD Project (2011)
by danielvinson on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @07:50PM
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OCZ was for the most part bought by Toshiba.
I'm not sure how public this is, but there were many more Barefoot controllers made and tested and a number of the later-generation OCZ drives were based on a much newer Barefoot-based controller.
I think the later Barefoot controllers were public enough, with the two different speed grades of Barefoot 3 being used in the OCZ Arc 100 and Vector 180 (which still exists as the VT180): http://www.anandtech.com/show/9009/ocz-vector-180-240gb-480g...
But it's a dead end and last I heard Toshiba doesn't plan on doing another revision of the silicon to update it with anything like support for SATA link power saving modes.