14 DAY TRIAL // Peripherals manufacturer Bitmicro has done it once again with their new collection of solid-state drives that will kick in soon. The company is currently the owner of world's largest solid-state drive, the 832GB SATA 2.5-inch model that could be admired during the Consumer Electronics Show in January.
The company has come a long way ahead and is ready to announce that it has doubled its storage space on single level cell NAND flash. Bitmicro is way ahead of the other competitors in the solid-state drives industry, that could only jump the 500 GB fence. Given the current announcement, the company produces disks that are 300 percent larger than the competitors' offerings.
The reason is simple: Bitmicro is not really interested in the consumer market, nor does it receive its research funds from sales. The company is currently working for the military, industrial and enterprise markets, and sells its products accordingly.
The manufacturer announced that the 1.6 TB behemoth will use an Ultra 320 SCSI interface and will deliver data transfer rates of 230MB/sec write and 320MB/sec read in burst mode. The drive is extremely rugged and will especially be used in military applications. It can normally operate at temperatures between -40 degrees C and 85 degrees C.
"Ruggedness has always been the strength of flash SSDs in the military market, and the forthcoming addition of the E-Disk Altima Ultra320 SSD to Bitmicro's line-up will shore up the company's support for I/O intensive and high-capacity applications," said Rudy Bruce, Executive Vice President for Marketing and Sales at BiTMICRO Networks.
The Flash memory has been used for military purposes long before it was introduced to the consumer market. SanDisk has been manufacturing flash-based devices for a few decades now, and the military funding was a real help in developing the nowadays flash-based storage devices.
"This is a huge technological leap that virtually erased the advantages of other storage solutions in terms of capacity and performance," he added.