14 DAY TRIAL // Solid state drives made for consumers can get themselves sold just on the fame of their performance alone, but storage devices used in professional and industrial systems need long lifespan and endurance as well. That's why companies, in this case Innodisk, make a point of specifying when a new SSD is industrial-grade.
The name of the new SSD line from Innodisk is 3MG2-P series. Not glamorous or eye-catching in any way, but it's not like the company was trying to come up with something that would roll off the tongue.
After all, when the customers are only going to look at the performance and quality instead of caring about the name, calling an SSD something like, say, Goliath would be redundant.
Anyway, the new SSD line is composed of drives with capacities of 8 GB to 1 TB. The ones up to 256 GB are already available, but the 1 TB model will only start shipping next month (September 2014).
In fact, an M.2 form factor SSD (M.2 2280 to be exact, the longer of the two) will be released at the time as well, with a similar capacity.
Prices weren't mentioned in the announcement, but that's to be expected when these details are hashed out during negotiations between supplier and demander.
The Innodisk 3MG2-P SSD currently comes in SATA III 2.5-inch and SATA Slim formats. In all cases, though, the performance depends on the ID201 controller and the DRAM cache.
Speaking of the insides, capacity is provided by NAND Flash memory chips fabricated through the 19 nm manufacturing process.
Everything boils down to a sustained read speed of 530 MB/s and a writing speed of 460 MB/s, while the random 4K performance is of 80,000 IOPS read (input/output operation per second) and 76,000 IOPS write.
That leaves endurance and power management, and both facets have been thoroughly optimized by Innodisk. You can run the 3MG2-P SSDs in extreme temperature environments (-40°C and 85°C / -40 °F to 185 °F) on very little power thanks to DEVSLP support. Also, the Evergreen L2 architecture ensures a long lifespan, according to the Innodisk announcement.
Furthermore, the iData Guard is included, ensuring that data isn't corrupted, at least not easily, if the power is cut for some reason.
Finally, the Innodisk 3MG2-P SSDs have active error correction capabilities and built-in shock and vibration resistance. Not that the lack of moving parts make SSDs all that vulnerable to those things, to begin with.