BiTMICRO Networks is upping the ante today for solid state hard drives with plans to release a 416GB drive in a small, 2.5-inch form factor early next year.
The manufacturer showed off the drive at DSEi 2007 in London this week, part of the company's E-Disk Altima family of flash solid state disks (SSD). 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.
According to BiTMICRO, the new 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 a 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.
Sampling for the SSD is expected to begin in Q1 2008 and ship by March 2008 in capacities ranging from 4GB up to 416GB. Pricing details were not disclosed. For more information, visit www.bitmicro.com.
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