The International Consumer Electronics Show has given us a lot of new products, some of which are close to being ready. Case in question: BiTMICRO Networks has a flash solid state disk up it's sleeve that will reach 832 GB, as a part of their E-Disk Altima(tm) SATA flash SSD series (in 2.5" form factor).

Taking advantage of the latest NAND Flash Technology improvements, it's now possible to achieve these capacities in very a small space. They also say it will pave the way for mass SSD deployment in the, more "price-sensitive", PC market. More specifically, they expect no less than a rise in sales by 477% annually, from 2006 to 2011.

The main progress made in memory chips, consists in the new multi-level cell (MLC) type of NAND flash, compared to the old single-level cell (SLC). With them, the number of bits stored per memory cell, gets doubled. Add to that, BiTMICRO's own propietary EDSA(tm) and LUNETA(tm) controllers, to optimize performance, and the disk should sustain transfer rates of up to 100 MB and up to 20,000 I/O operations per second.

Link: BenchmarkReviews.

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