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
i simply don't trust them to last tbh ,id rather w8 and see how they are in a year or so,until then im perfectly happy using ye olde mechanical drives :)
All of Your CellPhones memory cards and iPhones, Blackberries are using some kind of SSDs!
:cool: (Solid State Drives - non mechanic units...)
newtekie1:
"The problem is that just putting the OS on the drive doesn't help performance in applications. The applications need to be on the SSD also, and right now my OS/App drive isat 200GB and growing with each new game that comes out."
128GB is enough I'm sure You aren't playing 70GB of Games at the same time period (1-2mounth or so) And for the newest and hottest of your Games is always Space! Beside this new tech don't need to trow your older tech away so you have your HDDs for videos and music (and for the older Games((orGameISOs:))) But you can buy a 256GB SSD also for more space! But my experience with free space on drives is that there isn't enough free space no matter what big your drives are! :D You get it Always Full!
And they are lowering the prices, but with all new tech the prices are high and when more and more people buy the product the cost for making it goes down...
The Year of the SSDs is comming maybe 2010 so I think I can wait! And read from bigger and better drives! :rolleyes:
"ya sure it is the future and will do what you said, but first get the name right. its SSD ( Solid State Drive ) , not SDD ( Solid Disk Drive ) . :D :slap:"
Sorry I was writing on my iPhone3G with just one open hand! (because my girlfriend was sleeping on me!) So it was a bit difficult but I'm apologizing for it! :toast:
And if they drag their feet, maybe we'll get manufacturers offering them with a SAS 2.0 interface.
Or perhaps will see more PCIe based drives.
I will say that the one thing that is at least good with this situation is that in reality, when the flash memory starts to fail, the data won't usually be lost. You can still usually read the last thing written to it, you just can't write anything new.Yes, so are USB flash drives. The flash memory cards used in CellPhone and such don't really see the read/write counts that a HDD/SSD in a computer will see. Besides that, they are notoriously unreliable, I've had to replace my USB Flash drive 3 times in a year.128GB would definitely not be enough, and obvously if bigger drives coming out is news, I'm not alone. Like I have said my OS drive is already at 200GB, it is on a 500GB Drive. I would rather not have to constantly worry about running out of space.
Like I have said, I don't believe SSDs will be able to compete with HHDs in the consumer market for at least 2 years, until prices on SSDs get down to at least close to HDDs.
"128GB would definitely not be enough, and obvously if bigger drives coming out is news, I'm not alone. Like I have said my OS drive is already at 200GB, it is on a 500GB Drive. I would rather not have to constantly worry about running out of space."
Like I already said no matter what big your drives are! You get it Always Full!!!
Difference between You and Me is that You give 2years to SSDs to grow up and I give 1!
ps: If You must replace Your USB sticks 3times a year, You picked maybe the wrong company's...
I have 1 A-Data (1GB) 3years old Zero problem
1 Kingston (4GB) 2years old Zero problem
O and a 64MB no name drive 5 or 6 years old and still running... (check it for you today:roll:)
SSD prices will drop soon or later! (max2year)
:pimp:
hes got a couple first gen 4gb memorex drives(came with that annoing software that lets u run apps off the drive from a menu system, cleared that with the geeksquad tool) they been running for years of CONSTANT benching, the shells have disscolored(baddly infact) but the drives are still reading as reliable!!!
PNY has a HIGH fail rate, he even gave up testing them after the 10th one died from what his list shows(last i was over there the thing was still going, old ass laptop being used for testing)
most important thing is buying a good brand.
i would give these 3-4 years same as most mech drives made today.
longer in many systems, hell i got a first gen 200gb maxtor drive thats been over heated BADDLY thats STILL RUNNING PERFECTLY after I did a multi lowlevel format and ran hdd regenerator on it, its got a few re-allocated sectors but works FINE, hasnt gained anymore, so im not worried about it dieing still use it as a download drive :D
I've had three new WD 640GB's die within 2 days of owning each, my housemate had a 1TB seagate die within 8 hours of owning it (with 500GB of his data moved over to it) and a friend with a 750GB greenpower which is causing bluescreens somehow.
Dont whine about how SSDs are going to be the end of your data - mechanical drives arent exactly reliable either.
OCZ has been great about it, their lifetime warranty has covered it each time, I just send in the old drive, and they ship me a new one, no questions asked. I think they are getting a little tired of me sending in dead drives though, the last time the upgraded me to their ATV Rugged drive. :laugh:
The 4GB drive that I bought from them has lasted 2 years now though.
most drives i have killed/seen killed didnt die from ware on the memory chips, but the eeprom getting scrambled(stoped being seen as a usb flash drive and was seen as a generic usb device)