We love us a good speed record and today's comes paired with another superlative: biggest and baddest. Smart Modular Technologies just announced the Optimus SSD, a drive with up to a record 1.6TB in storage that can also read up to a gigabyte of data per second.
The 2.5-inch drive also promises write speeds of 500MB/s and will be available in smaller 200GB, 400GB, and 800GB capacities, in addition to that 1.6TB monster. No word on pricing except that Smart Modular insists they'll be "cost-effective." Then again, the company expects IT departments will snap these up for corporate use, so your guess is as good as ours as to how accessible these will be for run-of-the-mill hobbyists.
Smart is also claiming that its Optimus solutions represent the world's fastest multi-level cell and highest capacity SAS SSD's available - notching up a random read performance of 100,000 IOPS, and write of 50,000 IOPS, and sustained sequential read of 1000 MB/s in applications equipped to support wide-port SAS technology, and write of 500 MB/s.
The Optimus SAS SSD enterprise solutions are scheduled to make a public appearance at the Flash Memory Summit between August 9 and 11 in Santa Clara, California ahead of sampling in September. There's no word at all on how much this technology is going to cost, which is probably a good indication that it's going to easily live up to its enterprise status.
The 2.5-inch drive also promises write speeds of 500MB/s and will be available in smaller 200GB, 400GB, and 800GB capacities, in addition to that 1.6TB monster. No word on pricing except that Smart Modular insists they'll be "cost-effective." Then again, the company expects IT departments will snap these up for corporate use, so your guess is as good as ours as to how accessible these will be for run-of-the-mill hobbyists.
Smart is also claiming that its Optimus solutions represent the world's fastest multi-level cell and highest capacity SAS SSD's available - notching up a random read performance of 100,000 IOPS, and write of 50,000 IOPS, and sustained sequential read of 1000 MB/s in applications equipped to support wide-port SAS technology, and write of 500 MB/s.
The Optimus SAS SSD enterprise solutions are scheduled to make a public appearance at the Flash Memory Summit between August 9 and 11 in Santa Clara, California ahead of sampling in September. There's no word at all on how much this technology is going to cost, which is probably a good indication that it's going to easily live up to its enterprise status.
