electronista.com - 11/26/2008
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Micron has developed an extremely fast solid-state drive that could set new records for internal storage and shown the drive in an early test. The claimed new breakthrough in storage uses two SSDs with 16 data channels for the flash memory to genera...
theregister.co.uk - 11/24/2008
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theregister.co.uk —
Comment Western Digital is open to entering the
solid state drive (SSD) market when it presents "appropriate...
opportunity." Richard Rutledge, Western Digital's SVP for marketing, clarified the position on SSDs. He set the scene thus: "Western Digital ...
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Western Digital opens door to flash • The Register
electronista.com - 11/24/2008
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electronista.com —
Micron on Monday said to CNET that it
would start mass-producing its long-promised RealSSD C200 256GB solid-state...
drive in March of next year. The timeframe pushes back the drive from its original fall launch and limits the current lineup to the 128...
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Micron to ship 256GB home SSD in March
crunchgear.com - 11/25/2008
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crunchgear.com —
Another manufacturer has thrown its hat into the
ever expanding, fantastically dull realm of solid state drive...
development. This time it’s Micron, which today announced that it plans to release a 256GB SSD early next year. And just to ...
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Ooh, a 256GB SSD from Micron is on the way
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Micron Demos Super-Fast Solid-State Drives Running At 1GB Per Second [Ssd]
Gizmodo —
... drives with 250MBps speed a few months back, but now its demonstrated a tech that'll blow them out of the water: 1GBps transfer rates. It's a bit cheaty since it uses two SSDs for a total of 16 data channels to access the flash memory, but that does give it a 200,000 input/output operations per second speed. And that's too fast for SATA II's bandwidth cap, so Micron had to use PCI Express. It's a technology demonstrator, but Micron apparently plans to commercialize it "soon". [Electronista] ...
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