Friday, 14 September 2007

BiTMicro Pushes SSD Capacity to 416 GB

With a goal of taking solid state storage to new levels of performance, capacity and reliability, BiTMICRO Networks has announced that it is working on a 416 GB flash solid state disks (SSD)...

With a goal of taking solid state storage to new levels of performance, capacity and reliability, BiTMICRO Networks has announced that it is working on a 416 GB flash solid state disks (SSD).

Featuring the company’s EDSA flash I/O controller and LUNETA memory flash interface ASICs, E-Disk Altima SSD has 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 utilise 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, a company press release said.

“For storage users in the military and industrial markets, high disk capacities equate to longer hours, even days, of non-stop operation. Just like enterprise users, these markets desire continually increasing drive capacities to meet exponential growth in their storage requirements,” remarked Rudy Bruce, Exec. VP for Marketing and Sales and CMO at BiTMICRO Networks. “The launch of the E-Disk Altima series of cutting-edge solid state flash drives will usher in a new computing era, where solid state mass storage will combine with multi-core processors to deliver unprecedented levels of performance required by next-generation operating systems and applications,” Bruce said.