Sandisk wants to revolutionise SSD

Since its lack of success on the new-born market of SSDs gave a bad moment to the leaders of Sandisk at the time of the announcement of their latest results, the company now seems to want make itself the standard during 2009.
They announce a new technology that in the long term is able to multiply by 100 the speed of the random writings to these disks, a weak point currently.
To arrive at this result, they did not seek to improve quality of the memory chips, but used another interesting approach. Currently, while writing a traditional hard drive with data, it also will write in its catalogue the location in which they are stored.
Sandisk decided to attack this aspect and proposes to modify it. These disks, thanks to powerful algorithms, will make it possible to optimise the placement of the data so that it can be accessed as fast as possible.
In addition to this function, Sandisk will propose a multichannel system that is completely asynchronous. It will be, for example, possible to read on one of the memory chips the data while writing on another chip.
The company seems so sure of itself that it tries even to impose to the other manufacturers two new standards.
- one is called vRPM is supposed to give the SSD disks a rotation speed equivalent so that one is able to compare them with the traditional disks. One could for example have SSD with the vRPM of 2000 rpm or more.
- the other, the LDE wants to be a new standard making it possible to measure the reliability of the disks. It would replace the MTBF that is not too meaningful with its millions of announced hours.