18.07.2008 09:50 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Samsung Announced SSD with Extended Lifetime

As the new revolutionary ferroelectric NAND flash memory chips will not arrive immediately, Samsung and Sun announced the future development of SLC chips-based SSD with extended lifetime. According to the press release, the new device would offer 5-10 million read-write-cycle range, an 100-fold increase compare to other SSD featuring usually only 100,000 cycles for SLC, and 10,000 cycles for MLC. For the moment, this new SLC chips has been developed for offering a new 8 GB server-grade SLC flash memory SSD, that Sun plans to incorporate into its line of servers and storage. According to Samsung data, the new SLC memory could be used to speed up video streaming, high-transaction data processing, search engine operations and other high-speed server functions. So do not get excited, it will most likely not arrive tomorrow in consumer electronic-dedicated SSD tomorrow, is there currently any? [translation by Linathael]

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