Tuesday, September 11th 2007

BiTMICRO Prepares 416GB 2.5-inch Solid State Drive

California-based BiTMICRO has unveiled its latest line-up of solid state drive (SSDs), the E-Disk Altima. The Altima drives feature the EDSA flash I/O controller and the LUNETA memory flash interface and although they are based on the old PATA 133 technology, they promise to deliver high transfer speeds. Set to bring high-capacity and high-performance yet cost-effective solid state storage to servers and storage networks, the 2.5-inch E-Disk Altima drives use single level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory chips and will offer read speeds of up to 133MB/s and write speeds up to 100MB/s. The new drive series will include models with capacities ranging from 4GB up to an impressive 416GB. The first E-Disk Altima samples will be ready in early 2008 while the drives' shipping date is planned for March 2008.
Source: TechConnect Magazine
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17 Comments on BiTMICRO Prepares 416GB 2.5-inch Solid State Drive

#1
Exceededgoku
Too good to be true!? Those specs are rediculously good! :O
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#2
rampage
wow... bring it on, i wonder what this will so to prices of standard drives?
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#3
effmaster
lol if even if they price the 416 GB at $1000 that would still drive down prices
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#4
Scrizz
lol $1000 more like $10000
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#5
panchoman
Sold my stars!
it costs like 1016 bucks to get a 64g ssd in a alienware/dell system, probably like 10k for the 416g lmao .
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#6
kwchang007
Wow....that's probably going to be expensive.
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#7
effmaster
panchomanit costs like 1016 bucks to get a 64g ssd in a alienware/dell system, probably like 10k for the 416g lmao .
WTF last I had heard it had only cost like $600

(laughs at himself since either way he couldnt ever in his life afford it or want to for that matter)

And $10,000 for that well maybe if its being privately sold to companies but if its going to be on the general retail market for consumers then they need to have the price be way lower than that.
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#9
Nemesis881
sigh..I remember when I had a 4.6gb HDD LOL!! good times
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#10
Scrizz
Nemesis881sigh..I remember when I had a 4.6gb HDD LOL!! good times
i know what you mean, I still got my 2GB hard drive somewhere :laugh:
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#11
Wile E
Power User
Lol. Got you both beat, I have a 300MB drive floating around here somewhere.

EDIT: Nix that, I just disposed of a 300MB hard drive. lol
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#13
Starcrusher
Bah...you youngsters. I still have my old 20MB HD from the first computer I had that even HAD a HD!
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#14
DaMulta
My stars went supernova
Do you have the FM HDD with the Controler card Star?

I do :)
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#15
effmaster
StarcrusherBah...you youngsters. I still have my old 20MB HD from the first computer I had that even HAD a HD!
How big is it post some pics wouldya:laugh:
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#16
Unregistered
why are they pata tho'? why not sata.i dont want no ide cables in my machine.
#17
Wile E
Power User
tigger69why are they pata tho'? why not sata.i dont want no ide cables in my machine.
2.5" drive meant for laptop interfaces. There aren't any cables in a laptop, it just plugs right in.
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