Saturday, January 10th 2009
pureSilicon Debuts World's First 1TB 2.5-Inch SSD
pureSilicon is demonstrating the highest-density SSD available today: the 1TB Nitro Series. This represents a major advance for the storage industry since it combines maximum density with high performance and low power demand. Four of these drives deliver 4TB in the same space as a standard 3.5-inch HDD, so server footprint requirements and energy consumption in data-intensive applications can be considerably reduced.
The 1TB Nitro SSD is the most compact SSD per gigabyte: 15.40GB per cubic centimeter in a 2.5-inch form-factor - at least three times greater than any other SSD on the market. This high density in a small form factor has been achieved through innovative engineering techniques coupled with advanced industrial design that yields an exceptionally thin enclosure.
This Nitro line of high-performance solid-state drives is designed for applications where data throughput and power consumption are paramount: server, networking, datacenter, supercomputing, and professional media. These applications require fast transfer speeds and involve the storage of massive amounts of data. pureSilicon has benchmarked these drives at speeds approaching the maximum bus speed of SATA II (300 MB/s).
Feature summary
- 1TB SSD in 2.5-inch form-factor (highest density ever at 2.5-inch)
- 300MB/s SATA II interface
- Industry-leading performance
- State-of-the-art industrial design
Specifications
- Capacities: 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1024GB
Performance
- Transfer rate: 300MB/sec
- Sustained read: 240MB/sec
- Sustained write: 215MB/sec
- Random read (IOPS 4K): 50,000
- Random write (IOPS 4K): 10,000
- Latency < 100 µsec
Reliability
- MTTF: 2.0 million hours
Environmental
- Temperature (operating): 0°C to +70°C
- Temperature (non-operating): -45°C to +85°C
- Shock (operating): 1500G, duration 0.5ms, half sine wave
- Vibration (operating): 20G peak, 10~2,000Hz, x3 axis
Power
- Active: 4.8W typical
- Idle: 0.1W typical
Physical
- 2.5in form factor: 100.2mm x 69.85mm x 9.5mm
pureSilicon has begun sampling its Renegade SSD units on a limited basis to select customers, with shipments expected to commence in the first quarter of 2009. The Nitro Series SSDs will be available in Q3 2009, pricing TBD.
Source:
MarketWire
This Nitro line of high-performance solid-state drives is designed for applications where data throughput and power consumption are paramount: server, networking, datacenter, supercomputing, and professional media. These applications require fast transfer speeds and involve the storage of massive amounts of data. pureSilicon has benchmarked these drives at speeds approaching the maximum bus speed of SATA II (300 MB/s).
Feature summary
- 1TB SSD in 2.5-inch form-factor (highest density ever at 2.5-inch)
- 300MB/s SATA II interface
- Industry-leading performance
- State-of-the-art industrial design
Specifications
- Capacities: 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1024GB
Performance
- Transfer rate: 300MB/sec
- Sustained read: 240MB/sec
- Sustained write: 215MB/sec
- Random read (IOPS 4K): 50,000
- Random write (IOPS 4K): 10,000
- Latency < 100 µsec
Reliability
- MTTF: 2.0 million hours
Environmental
- Temperature (operating): 0°C to +70°C
- Temperature (non-operating): -45°C to +85°C
- Shock (operating): 1500G, duration 0.5ms, half sine wave
- Vibration (operating): 20G peak, 10~2,000Hz, x3 axis
Power
- Active: 4.8W typical
- Idle: 0.1W typical
Physical
- 2.5in form factor: 100.2mm x 69.85mm x 9.5mm
pureSilicon has begun sampling its Renegade SSD units on a limited basis to select customers, with shipments expected to commence in the first quarter of 2009. The Nitro Series SSDs will be available in Q3 2009, pricing TBD.
41 Comments on pureSilicon Debuts World's First 1TB 2.5-Inch SSD
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But if you wish buy a 1GB HDD beside of the SDD to store your precious Data! (All your Porn and pirated films!) And for the system you can use the ultra fast SDD :D:D:D
SDD is the future! :slap:
- MTTF: 2.0 million hours"
so the mean time to a failure is 2 million hours, (across all units made the same)
1 year is shy of 9000 hours.
they post MTTF because this unit is non repairable, but 2 million hours!
how many times would you guys write and rewrite data anyway?
personally im still waiting to hear the FIRST horror story of an expensive SSD dying.i was under the impression that using any electronics is in effect shortening its life, thus wouldn't everything be a matter of when not if? just a different time frame.
SSDs are still new to the consumer market, give it about 2 more years and we will start to see people's drives dying.We are talking about roughly the 2 year timeline and the drives failing within that. With an HDD we are talking about if they die within 2 years. With an SSD we are talking about when they die in 2 years.
Yes, using an electronic device shortens its lifespan, however with an HDD its life span is a random length and using it just randomly changes that to something else. With an SSD, you are working with a time bomb, the counter starts the moment you plug it in, and every write decreases the timer by one.
Some say that the usable life of the current SSDs are relatively long(5-10 years), but others say they will start to fail and show signs of the flash memory failing after just 2-3 years.
Personally, I would rather take my chances with an HDD that might never die, than buy a drive I know will die eventually. SSDs might be fast, but IMO they aren't worth it. Prices are still too high, and reliability is still too low. Especially with large drives like this which are meant to store data. I expect SSDs need about another 2 years before they will be an acceptable replacement for desktop drives.
for myself hardware is on a very short lifespan, as are windows rebuilds.
i would only buy an SSD for a windows/games drive (maybe raid) so if one or both lasted only say 1-2 years i could warrant replacing them, under 1 condition.
THE PRICE COMES DOWN!!! gahhh theyre so expensive :ohwell:
Anybody got an idea on projected price?
SLC drives already post acceptable numbers. It's these MLC drives that are the trouble, and even they are rapidly improving. At any rate, I'd still trust an SSD over an HD anyday, your more likely to wear out an HDs mechanics than an SSDs burn in with decent wear leveling.