They won't really start selling until about a week from now

Mar 8, 2012 12:43 GMT  ·  By

It wasn't overly long ago that the Japanese company Green House released a NAND Flash-based storage device and, now, the company is doing it again.

Of course, that is not exactly an accurate summation of the most recent events that transpired at the company's home base in the Land of Sunrise.

After all, even if its newest products are made out of NAND Flash chips, they aren't flash drives like the GH-UFI-XSA.

It also bears noting that MLC NAND chips are used here instead of SLC ones.

For those who haven't guessed it yet, what Green House has introduced is a series of solid state drives (SSDs).

The name of import is GH-SSDxS-1MA series, where the “x” determines how much gigabytes each model can store.

In other words, we have the GH-SSD32GS-1MA, the SSD64GS-1MA and the GH-SSD128GS-1MA, with capacities of 32 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB, respectively.

The drives are unusual, though not unique, through their form factor of 1.8 inches and the support for only the SATA II interface.

That means that SATA 6.0 Gbps transfer rates are not supported, so people have to make do with SATA 3.0 Gbps.

In numbers, that means top read speed of 220 MB/s, and write speed of 100 MB/s for the 32 GB models, while the other two operate at a maximum of 230 MB/s read and 190 MB/s write.

All newcomers boast a cache memory of 64 MB (DDR3) and support for the TRIM, ECC (48bit/2KB) and NCQ technologies.

Finally, shipments should begin around the middle of this month (March, 2012), which means roughly a week from now, or thereabouts.

The prices are of 10,500 JPY for the 32 GB SSD ($129 / 97.62 Euro), 16,800 JPY for 64 GB ($206 / 155.89 Euro), and 25,200 JPY for the 128 GB model ($310 / 235 Euro).