Mtron Rocks Again, the Fastest 130MB/s SATA II SSD

[HellasVagabond]

One more time, Mtron SSD PRO 7500 Series will hit the SSD market

Mtron Co., Ltd(KOSDAQ: 046320), a manufacturer of Solid State Drive (SSD) products in South Korea, announced today that they have completed the development of new PRO 7500 series for industrial purpose, and will be launching the new series in June.

Mtron’s new PRO 7500 series supports SATA II interface and provide the maximum read speed of 130MB/s and write speed of 120MB/s, becoming the fastest SSD in the market. With the development of their new PRO 7500 series, Mtron created another innovation to the SSD technology and proved once again that they are the leading manufacturer of SSD products in the highly competitive market.

Mtron’s new PRO 7500 series is targeted for enterprise market to provide servers and storages with 10~20% improved performance from Mtron’s SATA I SSD. It includes Random Read IOPS (Data input/output speed) of 19,000, a speed that is 65 times faster than current industrial purpose SAS HDD, in order to deliver much-improved performance in the situations with heavy volume transactions. Also, it consumes 60% less electricity than HDD, has maximum energy efficiency with no noise and less heat, and contributes to environmental-friendly green IT technology.

Mtron will be producing their new PRO 7500 series with 32 GB ~ 128 GB capacities in 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch sizes.

In addition to their announcement, Mtron will be exhibiting their new PRO 7500 series at ‘DS Expo/10th Data Storage Expo in Tokyo’ from May 14th to 16th, and ‘Cebit Austrailia 2008’ in Australia from May 20th to 22nd.

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[cloasters]

Thanks for the head's-up HellasVagabond! Used to work for an outfit called Ntron, fwiw.

[MUff1N]

It will be great when they get the storage capacity up a bit more and more speed too. This will come with time and advancements just like processors and chipsets.

Then I'll go with them...

[cloasters]

Not that long ago, SSD storage cost thousands for a tiny "drive." Is the writing on the wall for our spinning friends?

[Áedán]

Random access times is where SSD has always really scored well though - changing the page of memory you have open vs moving a head physically, and it's easy to see which is faster.

Interestingly, these still aren't as fast at sequential transfer rates as their mechanical cousins. They are getting there though, although I'm still waiting for the cost to come down...

[HellasVagabond]

Soon we will have SSDs and not HDDs.

[Áedán]

No bad thing on the power consumption. I do wonder how the wear levelling works when the device is full though.

[cloasters]

"Wear leveling" as in some addresses are bound to go bad with extended use? Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

[Áedán]

Flash works in blocks - depending on the flash device, it can be anything from 512bytes up to several Kb. When you write to a block, first you have to erase the whole block, and then re-write it. That erase/rewrite process does 'wear out' the flash, so there's a limited number of times you can erase/write to flash (admittedly it's usually in excess of 100,000 times now).

If you use flash for swap files (and log files), where heavy access will occur, it's hard to know how long it'll last. My personal record so far is 6 months for logf iles, before the flash became unusable.

[cloasters]

Only six months? That's food for thought, not a nice meal either.