14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that G.Skill is ready to join its peers in moving on to the new generation of solid state drives, those capable of using the newest SATA interface standard, as its newest Phoenix drives were spotted at CeBIT.
CeBIT is one of those technological trade shows where companies from around the world convene and show off their newest and best products.
Currently, this year's edition is going through its first day, but already there are product announcements and hands-on reports filling the web.
Among other things, Corsair delivered new memory and cooling products, ASUS promoted two AMD Fusion Brazos nettops and FSP introduced a 500W 80Plus Gold, fanless PSU.
Now, G.Skill has made its contribution in the shape of the Phoenix II collection of solid state drive storage units.
Like other high-speed NAND Flash-based products released recently, they utilize the SF-2000 series of controller chips from SandForce.
There are three models in the Phoenix II line, their storage capacities being of 60 GB, 120 GB and 240 GB, respectively.
All three stick to the common 2.5-inch form factor and can reach transfer speeds of up to 550 MB/s when reading and 500 MB/s when writing. What's more, they are all built out of 25nm NAND Flash memory chips.
All in all, the SSDs are quite similar, in some ways even identical, to all other SATA 6.0 Gbps SSDs unveiled so far.
It shouldn't take more than a few days for the trio to start selling properly. The 120 GB models is, supposedly, already up for pre-order at 299 Euro. Nevertheless, G.Skill has yet to actually disclose the MSRP (manufacturer suggested retail price) for it or its siblings.
What remains to be seen is how fast all other players in the SSD industry are at matching this and the several other SF-2000-based products.