Micron Demos SSD With 1GB/sec Throughput 120
Lucas123 writes "Micron demonstrated the culmination of numerous technology announcements this year with a solid state disk drive that is capable of 1GB/sec throughput with a PCIe slot. The SSD is based on Micron's 34nm technology and interleaving 64 NAND flash chips in parallel. While the techology, which is expected to ship over the next year, is currently aimed at high-end applications, a Micron executive said it's entirely possible that Micron's laptop and desktop SSDs could have similar performance in the near future by bypassing SATA interfaces."
Re:Oblig (Score:3, Insightful)
Porn, what else!
Those videos have to load fast, yknow...
Re:Yes that's nice. (Score:3, Insightful)
There is a market... (Score:5, Insightful)
...for really high bandwith stuff.
For example, these puppies from Edgeware, designed for video streaming, can do 20GB/sec:
http://www.edgeware.tv/products/index.html [edgeware.tv]
(And these aren't vaporware, I've seen the actual hardware in action.)
Granted it's very custom stuff, but putting tech like this in a box with a SATA interface is really just evolutionary... Cool none the less though. :)
Re:Yes that's nice. (Score:3, Insightful)
And you think the 1GB/sec quoted in the title is actual performance in all situations, not just raw read speed?
Re:Interleave (Score:4, Insightful)
You *are* joking right? Currently the memory bandwidth is only a minor problem against disk performance. Disk IO is either really slow or really really expensive. Even nowadays, I can download faster than that I can save / PAR2 and unrar my binaries. I won't go into playing games at the same time: impossible. Disk spaed is a slow crawl. And that's just consumer stuff, I won't go into tuning high throughput databases.
Re:throughput IS NOT most important parameter (Score:3, Insightful)
Actually, random reads are a very big strong point of SSDs, because they have 2 orders of a magnitude less seek time than a platter drive.
Random writes are good on SLC SSDs (the expensive variety) and average on MLC SSDs (although, many MLC drives cause a pause after too many random writes at the moment).