For those of you who are following the SSD market as we do, JMiron is a well known company for its controller that has been installed in most entry-level SDD so far. Its main problem is its lack of support for cache memory, making performance levels to drop significantly as soon as several simultaneous requests are in the queue. The company announced a new controller, known as JMF612, bringing support for external cache memory. We should rapidly know if this improvement allows the new JMicron controller to compete with the new competitors now available on the market. Indeed, the Japanese SSD manufacturer Photofast has already announced a SSD model based on this JMicron JMF612:
Those models belonging to the SSD G-Monster V5J series will feature 256 MB of cache memory. this is huge if one considers that OCZ Vertex models only sport 64 MB of memory. specifications of those SSDs indicate that reading speed should be around 240 MB/s while writing speed shout hit 200 MB/s. The series will be composed of models with storage space ranging from 32 t o256 GB.
Over the last 3 months, performance of non RAID-based SSDs seems to stabilize, probably indicating that we reached maximum levels with the current technologies, so the competition should now switch to prices of such units, paving the way to affordable SSDs for the mass.
