Chip manufacturer has demonstrated what is, at least to our knowledge, the fastest solid state disk drive (SSD) demonstrated so far. A demo unit shown in a blurry YouTube video was hitting data transfer rates of 800 MB/s and can expand to apparently about 1 GB/s. The IO performance is about twice of the best performance we have seen to date.
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47 Responses
12.10.2008
I am glad this guy has a job with Micron. He wouldn’t make it on YouTube.
12.10.2008
Finally Vista is usuable.
12.10.2008
Too bad Windows 7 will dub thee as “Win ME II”
12.10.2008
I gigabyte of bandwidth per second??? Did I hear it correctly???
12.10.2008
how are they going to utilize this when sata 300 only supports 300mb/s?
12.10.2008
“[...] these drives are not connected via a PATA or SATA interface and therefore are not limited to the bandwidth limit of 300 MB/s of SATA II. Instead, the drives have PCIe interfaces and, according to Micron, include flash data management enhancements.”Reading the article helps.
12.10.2008
PCIe ports dont grow on tree’s.
12.10.2008
Tree’s what?
12.10.2008
^ that, and future proofing.
12.10.2008
It is not SATA that is the point. HDD interface standards have been holding back NAND Flash-based SSDs.
12.10.2008
Hmm… interesting information, I will have to read more to fully comprehend Sata.Dugg by Sabbay
12.10.2008
12.10.2008
Stop spamming that stupid ***** picture. This is the second time I’ve seen it in 10 minutes.
12.10.2008
want
12.10.2008
I could transfer my porn from one drive to another in mere hours!…I mean minutes. Hours? That would be a crazy amount of porn. I’d have to be a real sicko to have that much. Fine…you caught me…days.
12.10.2008
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=m1GBPreUPXk can select HQ for a better vid
12.10.2008
citysmart.com/boise-id/blog/boises-micr …
12.10.2008
i hope they arent writing checks that their ***** can cash….. otherwise they’ll be in deep doo doo
12.10.2008
“The fastest hard drive you can buy today, WD’s Velociraptor, clocks in at about 100 MB/s.”Really??? really? I’m pretty sure I was buying some 15k rpm drives that are faster than that…
12.10.2008
Maybe some of the top end enterprise SCSI drive might be a little faster, but they won’t be much faster than 100MB/s. Mechanical disks are pretty slow. If SSD’s reliability can be improved, I can definitely see them replacing mechanical drives in a few years.
12.10.2008
mid-end 2009 will be the time to create a planet for a landfill of mechanical HDD’sI already ditched my WD Raptors in favor of Transcend SSD, affordable 64GB ~ $175, enough to put dual Boot OSes, and needed software. Totally kicks WD raptors’ ass.
12.10.2008
“mid-end 2009 will be the time to create a planet for a landfill of mechanical HDD’s”agreed. mechanical drives will be artifacts by 2010. we saw how fast it happened with CRT-monitorsAnd as far as I’ve read from Tomshardware / Anandtech / etc, SSD reliability is already on par with, or better than mechanical drives
12.10.2008
Yay! Congrats on shelling out big dough on yesterdays technology!
12.10.2008
Actually SCSI is industry standard in servers and multi-user workstations. Look up SAS.
12.10.2008
SSD will bulldoze the competition in the next 2 years.
12.10.2008
I guess you have to sell like house + car + kidney just to get that nice drive.
12.10.2008
I would.
12.10.2008
Won’t due us Americans much good unless we build them here.
12.10.2008
The state of your brain proves god has got a sense of humour
12.10.2008
No, but it’ll due my computer some good!
12.10.2008
Damn, I just read “Micro penises supercharged (…)” — *WTF!* Okay, lads and gals, I’m off to bed.
12.10.2008
Well they could pack a lot of chips in parallel in a raid(ish) like manner.It’s not like they are dealing with space consuming discs.The more chips in parallel, the ‘wider’ the data amount transferred per fetch cycle.Interleaving data is an age old and well understood process.
12.10.2008
Now that’s an idea. Skip the host adapter and go strait to the pcie bus. Simplify the design. I like the idea of faster cheaper. What about plugging this into the memory bus. Always on and as much memory as your need.
12.10.2008
It would be better to just design a new I/O standard and build it into motherboards. The memory bus is not designed to do this natively. The only reason that they’re using the PCIe bus is that SATA doen’t have enough bandwidth.
12.10.2008
This sounds like a v.good planWith new 64 bit systems, why not just memory map the entire HD/SSD, then a byte of data can be accessed from flash using 0 CPU cycles. (ie. all read/write operations are handled entirely in hardware, with no page fault and OS involved)The problem would be that RAM is byte addressed, whereas HD’s are usually block addressed in big blocks – some hardware translation and block caching would be required, but that still isn’t a big problem.
12.10.2008
Holy….Mother of God.
12.10.2008
Tagline: Your porn – even faster.
12.10.2008
Yeah–this is really cool. Cool too that they’d post it (love the dorky lab stuff) … it also looks like they’ve got some “different thinking” going on there too. The other post that explains wear leveling is nicely put as well. advancedstorage.micronblogs.com/2008/11/hig …
12.10.2008
This Video is all over the place now. I have seen it on no less than ten blogs and news sites.
12.10.2008
They also have some hillarious videos of showing counseling sessions between an SSD and an HDD. advancedstorage.micronblogs.com/category/co …
12.10.2008
advancedstorage.micronblogs.com/2008/11/hdd … — I love this one, but I don’t think that HDD makers will like it much.
12.10.2008
Finally a rival for Fusion-io.Great to see that another PCI-E SSD drive is on the way.
12.10.2008
Anything that will make my pr0ns faster is fine by me!
12.10.2008
Yum!
12.10.2008
3 words.I want one.”*” more words.I wonder how much the things are going to go for… I don’t even want to think about it.probably around:$X,XXX for XX gigsand$XX,XXX for XXX gigs
12.10.2008
No doubt it will not be cheap to start with, but have you seen NAND Flash prices lately? It could mean that SSDs will be real competitive soon.
12.10.2008
OK, that’s significantly faster than the 25-30MB/sec which my current SSD gets. And to be honest, it slows down the entire machine.