Maxit Mag

 

The Taiwanese embedded data storage manufacturer InnoDisk Corp, recently announced the availability of the newest range of 2.5” SATA flash drives – the FiD 2.5” SATA 10000 SSDs. These drives are based on the Single Level Cell (SLC) NAND flash technology and are available in capacities ranging from 32GB to 128GB. The tough outer metal case, enormous capacities, high reliability, low power consumption, noise-free and anti-shock features make the InnoDisk FiD 2.5-inch SATA 10000 an ideal replacement to Hard Disk Drives.

The FiD 2.5” SATA 10000 32GB SSD delivers read and write rates of up to 110Mbps and 90Mbps respectively and burst read rates up to 300 Mbytes/sec and supports the Serial ATA 2.0-3Gbps standard.  The drives offer a random read and write rate of over 9500 and 550 inputs/outs per second (IOPS) for a 512-byte transfer. The FiD 2.5” SATA 10000 achieves performance that is approximately 20% higher than a traditional SCSI hard drive.

The drive features a write/erase endurance of approximately 8 years at 1TByte of write/erase cycles per day thanks to an exclusive controller chip design that features proprietary wear leveling and bad block management algorithms. The FiD 2.5” SATA 10000 32GB drive scored 8500 points in PCMark Vantage v1.0.0 during testing. The drive performed equally well in other PCMark Vantage tests like Vista Startup, Movie Maker Edit, Application Loading etc. Expect a full featured review from us in the coming weeks with detailed performance results.

Sampling for the FiD 2.5”SATA 10000 SSDs is expected to begin in March 2008 and will ship in volume by Q2 2008 in capacities ranging from 32GB to 128GB. These drives will set you back by $700, $1350, and $3200 respectively for the 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB models.