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Micron 1GB/s SSD to be released in the near future

Brenda Stokes, Nov 26th 2008 Discuss [1]

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. Read The Full Story

Intel 80GB & 160GB consumer SSDs for imminent announcement?

Chris Davies, Aug 15th 2008 Discuss [0]

Intel are preparing to announce their latest SSD storage range at IDF next week, according to information acquired by Expreview. The drives, made with partner Micron, will be consumer versions of that company's RealSSD range, which will be targeted at enterprise customers. Read The Full Story

Micron C200 256GB SSD & P200 enterprise SSD announced

Chris Davies, Aug 5th 2008 Discuss [0]

Micron have announced a pair of new Solid State Drives (SSDs) in their RealSSD range, in the shape of the C200 and the P200. Where the former is an SATA drive aimed at consumers, offering up to 256GB in the 2.5-inch form factor or 128GB in the 1.8-inch, it uses MLC flash promising read rates of up to 250MB/s and write rates of up to 100MB/s. Read The Full Story