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hey guys Eber here with hard-working axe and while we were walking through the computation show floor we spotted a couple of interesting things at the azrog booth no it wasn't a motherboard or a graphics card but rather storage demo that showed some absolutely epic speeds but before we get to that I want to thank fantex coolermaster & Thermaltake for sponsoring our Computex 2018 coverage okay about that epic storage test basically asrock had a test system set up with their x29 and professional gaming i 9xc motherboard and this yep that's the same as rock ultra quad nvme raid card we saw at this year's CES but it's now being used and in ridiculously fast system it uses an integrated fan and a metal shroud that makes contact with the internal SSDs via thermal pads for increased cooling capacity but it was the internals that blew our minds inside where four of Intel's new 380 gigabyte nvme octane 905 PSS deeds placed in a raid array these are actually some of the most advanced SSDs currently on the market and it delivers blazing fast speeds this is actually the first time we were seeing this drive in action since the 388 gabite was just announced at Computex basically it's equipped with Intel's new 3d crosspoint memory that is not only fast but durable - each of these drives is rated at 10 Drive writes per day which is crazy considering most standard SSDs have rating up between one and three these four SSDs ended up hitting speeds of almost 11 gigabytes per second per reads and 10 gigabytes per second writes this is kind of the array that would be amazing for creative editors or anyone who needs ultra quick access to massive files do you guys see any use for this in your own workflows let us know in the comments down below now another computer that we were actually able to finally get our hands on is the latest update to Intel's often memory ecosystem as a small refresher opt in memory allows you to boost the performance of slower SSDs or hard drives by caching bits of information on ultra-fast memory by using an algorithm that learns your habits they're able to improve the load times of your most used applications back when it was first launched opt in memory was a bit limited since it could only accelerate your primary drive or partition through its caching algorithm now Intel is allowing the optin memory modules like the opt in SSD 800 P the opt in SSD 900p drives to boost performance of any secondary drives or partitions as well this is pretty big news for anyone who runs a smaller capacity SSD as their primary C Drive in parallel with a larger capacity hard drive for their game installs and other space hungry files in this case a Scirocco is using a pretty slow 1 terabyte Seagate hard drive and an opt in SSD in the background both partitions could easily hit over one gigabytes per second read speed just amazing so our visit to asrock wouldn't have been complete without at least one motherboard and this one certainly stood out say hello to the Jade 3455 pro BTC plus a pretty unique motherboard that's targeted at you guessed it miners who want to run a huge number of graphics cards in this case you can run up to 8 GPUs off of PCI slots which according to asrock is a much more stable setup than linking them up via USB headers like asus did with their latest mining centric motherboard each one of those slots also has a dedicated molex power connector with that being said there's three USB headers dedicated towards additional graphics card support if you want to expand the mining capacity to 11 GPUs since mining on GPUs don't require a huge amount of CPU horsepower as well integrated an inexpensive Apollo Lake processor onto the board the other interesting thing about this motherboard is its form factor honestly guys this thing looks like a long portfolio and it's definitely won't fit into a standard ATX case the j34 55 pro is meant to be installed into an open test station environment where form factors are less of a concern so that's it from as well guys it was really cool to see some of these storage setups which target very different use case scenarios but what do you guys think is opting something that you would look into now that its capabilities have been expanded into its options for you let us know in the comments down below and don't forget to check out these additional videos from Computex 2018 i'm Ebor with hardware canucks thank you so much for watching and we'll see you in the next one