Solid State Drives

Mtron has announced its new 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch solid state drives lineup, with read speeds of 120MB/sec and write speeds of 90MB/sec.

According to DailyTech, Mtron is leaving its competition in the dust with the company’s new range of SSDs.

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SanDisk Corporation has announced the uSSD 5000 solid state drive (SSD). It can be used as an economical substitute for hard disk drives in sub-$250 PCs, such as Intel-powered classmate PCs, according to manufacturer.

“SanDisk’s uSSD 5000 solid state drive is a USB module designed to be embedded directly onto the motherboard of low-cost PCs as a hard disk replacement. The uSSD 5000 solid state drive supports a variety of operating systems, including Microsoft’s Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Embedded, Windows Embedded for Point of Service and Windows CE, as well as Linux. The uSSD 5000 solid state drive is expected to be available in capacities from 2GB to 8GB,” the company’s press release says.

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SanDisk Corporation has announced at Computex 2007 show in Taipei its 64-gigabyte 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch solid state drives (SSDs), which can be used as a replacement for notebooks’ standard hard drives.

“Laptop manufacturers have requested more memory capacity for systems that use the Microsoft Vista platform, which can require a number of preloaded accessories and security suites,” said Doreet Oren, SanDisk director of SSD product marketing. “Also, there is interest in developing laptops for gaming, and the SSD is well-suited for the performance and memory requirements of those users. Thus, by offering greater capacities on our SSD products, we are making our products more appealing to a wider customer base.”

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Transcend has announced this week its flash memory-based 2.5-inch IDE Solid State Drive (SSD) line-up, featuring models with 32GB, 16GB and 8GB capacities.

Transcend’s 2.5-inch solid state drives with IDE interface have a metal case and anti-shock features for improved reliability. In addition, these SSDs have built-in ECC (Error Correction Code) functionality that “ensures highly reliable data transfer and increases your systems energy efficiency”. The new drives, which are designed to replace standard 2.5-inch hard disks in notebook computers, are also claimed to have low power consumption.

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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed a 1.8-inch 64GB flash memory-based solid state drive (SSD) at its annual Mobile Solution Forum in Taipei. The new flash-SSD is based on an eight gigabit single-level-cell (SLC) NAND, which provides significantly higher performance over conventional SSDs, according to company.

“The read and write performance of the new SLC flash-SSD have been increased by 20 percent and 60 percent respectively over the 32GB flash-SSD Samsung introduced last year, meaning that the new SSD’s ability to outperform conventional rotating-media hard drives is even greater than had been anticipated,” the press release says.

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SanDisk Corporation today released SSD SATA 5000 2.5-Inch, its new flash memory-based solid state drive with 32GB of data storage capacity, as a drop-in replacement for traditional laptop hard disk drives.

Along with 2.5-inch form factor and a Serial ATA interface, the new SanDisk SSD offers “six times” greater reliability than standard HDDs, as well as faster system boot times, better power efficiency and cool and quiet operation, since this drive has no moving parts found in hard drives.

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Intel Corporation announced today its entry into solid state drive (SSD) market with the Intel Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive, which will be used in a variety of Intel-based computing platforms, such as servers, emerging market notebooks and low-cost, fully featured PCs.

Intel’s Z-U130 Value SSD is based on NAND flash memory with industry standard USB interfaces and comes with 1GB, 2GB, 4GB or 8GB of storage capacity. It provides read speeds of 28MB per second and write speeds of 20 MB per second.

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Samsung Electronics announced that a 4GB solid state disk (SSD), now being readied for production, will also serve as a high speed NAND flash cache for laptops and desktop computers in conjunction with the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system.

The Samsung’s 4GB SSD is compatible with Windows ReadyBoost, a new Windows Vista feature that uses flash memory to improve system responsiveness.
According to press release, it enables users to avoid the hundreds of annoying multi-second delays they experience every day when moving within and between frequently used applications.

The Windows ReadyBoost feature of the Windows Vista operating system will intelligently populate the SSD with the data a user needs before they ask for it. It readies a user’s favorite applications and data in the background, accelerating everyday actions such as starting applications and switching users. When a user requests that data, rather than being limited to servicing 100-200 requests per second (as with a traditional HDD), Samsung’s SSD can service up to 5000 request per second, virtually eliminating data seek delays. The 4GB SSD can work in tandem with a hybrid hard drive, coming into play as a secondary source of cached data, Samsung published.

Samsung’s “new performance booster” can be located virtually anywhere on the motherboard and is connected through the ATA port. The flash cache compliments DRAM and because Windows Vista automatically compresses all data stored in a ReadyBoost device, the 4 gigabyte drive would, in practice, act as up to 8 gigabytes of user data, says Samsung’s press release.

SAMSUNG’s Digital World – Press Release