Anki Kaishi 15k [2026]

The Ultimate Jumpstart: A Deep Dive into the Kaishi 1.5k Anki Deck

Every card and every sentence has high-quality native audio. This supports an audio-visual association method, training the ear to recognize the word immediately, rather than just visually recognizing the Kanji. anki kaishi 15k

means "start" or "beginning" in Japanese. The deck’s philosophy is simple: give the learner the first 1,500 words they will actually encounter in native media (anime, visual novels, news, YouTube) rather than textbook contrivances. The Ultimate Jumpstart: A Deep Dive into the Kaishi 1

. Do not rush. Learning 10 cards a day means finishing the deck in 5 months with a very manageable daily review load. Keep Reviews at 9999: The deck’s philosophy is simple: give the learner

If you’re starting your Japanese journey, you’ve likely heard of the legendary "Core 2k/6k" decks. For years, they were the gold standard. But as language learning tech evolves, a new contender has emerged as the community favorite: .

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    Random adjectives, desperate efforts to “humanize” the tech resulted in this huge review to contain next to no information at all.

    There is no easy way to say this: software RAID 0 on PCIe is simply retarded.

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    Now just make it affordable

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      Well, for enterprise it is very affordable for what you get. If you are concerned about consumers/enthusiasts I can see where you are coming from, but this is not meant for them. Next year, however, we may be seeing performance like this trickle down.

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        More than likely next year

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        As an enterprise product I can see it as a high-end workstation device but not a server device. The lack of RAIDability seems to limit its use to caching and high-speed scratch work area.

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        I’ve been informed that PCIe hardware RAID will be available on the Skylake CPU and the Xeon version when it comes out later. Now we’re talking………

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    so this is a preview, not a review… where are the comparisons to P3700 and PM951?

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      I don’t have access to those drives. We reviewed the P3700 in another system. Because of that as well as a change in our testing methodology, we cant not graph them side by side. Looking at the P3700’s specific review you can gauge for yourself the approximate performance difference between the two.

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