As the new revolutionary ferroelectric NAND flash memory chips will not arrive immediately, Samsung and Sun announced the future development of SLC chips-based SSD with extended lifetime. According to the press release, the new device would offer 5-10 million read-write-cycle range, an 100-fold increase compare to other SSD featuring usually only 100,000 cycles for SLC, and 10,000 cycles for MLC. For the moment, this new SLC chips has been developed for offering a new 8 GB server-grade SLC flash memory SSD, that Sun plans to incorporate into its line of servers and storage.
According to Samsung data, the new SLC memory could be used to speed up video streaming, high-transaction data processing, search engine operations and other high-speed server functions. So do not get excited, it will most likely not arrive tomorrow in consumer electronic-dedicated SSD tomorrow, is there currently any?
Select all / none
Apple
CD Drives
G5
Hard Drive
Internet
iPad
iPhone
iPod
Laptop
MacBidouille
Mac Intel
Mac OS X
Network
Overclock
PC
Peripheral
Software
Sound
SSD
Video
