Post - 416Gb IDE Flash Solid State Disks Coming Soon from BiTMICRO
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BiTMICRO to Debut 416GB IDE Flash Solid State Disk Packed in 2.5-inch Rugged Hard Disk Drive Footprint New Breed of Proprietary ASICs Enables E-Disk Altima ATA-133 Flash SSD to Achieve Unprecedented Performance in its Class - 133MB/sec Burst with 100MB/sec Sustained Read and Write Rates and Over 20,000 Random IOPS
Defence Systems & Equipment International Exhibition, London, UK, September 11, 2007 — With a goal of taking solid state storage to unprecedented levels of performance, capacity and reliability, BiTMICRO Networks, the pioneer in intelligent IDE/ATA, SCSI, VME, and Fibre Channel flash disk solid state storage solutions, today announced at the Defence Systems & Equipment International Exhibition in London, UK details regarding the forthcoming release of the E-Disk® Altima™ family of flash solid state disks (SSD).
The E-Disk® Altima™ Flash SSD series is a realization of BiTMICRO’s goal to deliver a comprehensive set of solid state disk technologies for mainstream enterprise, commercial, industrial and military storage. Featuring the company’s cutting-edge EDSA™ flash I/O controller and LUNETA™ memory flash interface ASICs, E-Disk® Altima™ SSD brings high-capacity and high-performance yet cost-effective solid state storage to servers, storage networks, as well as other storage applications that are subjected to extreme operating conditions.
The first product to be released to market is the 2.5-inch E-Disk® Altima™ E2A133BL ATA-133 model, a flash memory-based SSD designed for military, industrial and commercial users who are looking for faster and bigger storage upgrades for time-tested PATA-based systems. This 2.5-inch ATA/ATAPI-7 PATA solid state drive, supporting PIO 0-4, DMA 0-2 and UDMA 0-6 data transfer modes, will utilize the latest high-density single level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory chips to deliver an astounding storage capacity of up to 416 GB, while providing 133MB/sec burst with up to 100MB/sec sustained Reads and Writes and up to 20,000+ Random IOPS. With operating temperatures ranging from –40 degrees C to +85 degrees C, the E-Disk® Altima™ ATA-133 model is suitable for 24x7 deployment even in extremely hostile environments.
....... Pricing and Availability
Sampling for the E-Disk® Altima™ ATA-133 solid state drive is expected to begin in Q1 2008 and ship by March 2008 in capacities ranging from 4GB up to 416GB.
Very nice!
I bet the new 416Gb disks wont be cheap at all at first since they're targeted to the military and large businesses..
But it probably wont take long before we see others starting to manufacture large Flash disks as well now.
Wouldn't mind one of those when the SATA-2 versions arrive..
