SlashGear Japan
Well this is exciting news. Micron has come up with a new SSD that could actually break current records for internal storage and would be incredibly fast. This new storage would actually use two solid-state drives that have 16 data channels. This would make for a transfer speed of up to 1GB/second!
Call me impressed! Performance exceeds 200,000 input/output operations per second. It also requires that the current Serial ATA II 300MB/s bandwidth cap be released with a PCI Express. During a demo video, the SSDs are mounted on cards and these managed to top 800MB/s.
Currently, the fastest SSD you can buy only reach 250MB/s and the fastest hard drive, the Western Digital Velociraptor, reaches 100MB/s. Supposedly, a production version of this super fast SSD will be released in the near future, though there’s no word on pricing or a specific release date. In the meantime, check out the video demo below:
One Response to “Micron 1GB/s SSD to be released in the near future”
Hansen December 3, 2008
This is just pathetic for Micron to push this like its some great innovation. This is a blatant rip-off of start-up FusionIO and sadly they’re not even showcasing something that’s better than FusionIO. Two of the PCI-Express iodrives from FusionIO would have something like 50 data channels, 1.6GB/s bandwidth, over 200,000 IOPS and they’re shipping right now.
Neutral