The very first SSD units were designed for Pro users and markets when looking for products able to support shocks and potential physical stress. Today, if SSDs remain expensive for most users for a similar storage capacity than disc-based HD, the market evolves and it is becoming "accessible" for a larger number of customers. While we are still waiting for Seagate to finally unveil its Pro SSD units, the company Pliant announced new Pro-oriented SSDs:
Those SSDs are not in SATA format, but more interestingly they feature a 2 SAS ports. This is the only way to avoid performance to be locked by the SATA II bandwidth bottleneck. HEre, one would reach 420 MB/s in reading mode and 220 MB/s in writing mode for a 2.5" SSD of 150 GB. Two other SSDs in 3.5" format offer respectively 525 MB/s and 340 MB/s i
