At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, pureSilicon showcased its latest high-density Flash-based Solid State Drive. Designed to meet the performance requirements of applications in the server, networking, datacenter, supercomputing and professional media industry segments, the new pureSilicon Nitro Series is capable of delivering a maximum storage capacity of 1TB. According to the company, the new storage solution comes in a notebook-friendly 2.5-inch form factor and can provide both high-performance levels, as well as a power consumption features.

 

With the announcement, the company basically raises the bar on the market for small-sized, high-performance storage solutions. The 1TB Nitro Series is the first SSD with a 2.5-inch form factor, to provide the impressive storage capacity, while still providing a maximum bus speed of 300 MB/s. The SSD offers 15.40GB per cubic centimeter, three times more than any other competitive products, currently on the market.

 

According to the specification sheet of the Nitro Series SSDs, these new pureSilicon storage solutions can be provided in capacities of 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and the massive 1024GB. They are said to be capable of providing sustained read and write speeds of 240MB/s and 215MB/s, respectively. The new drives are FIPS-compliant and are specified to provide an MTTF of 2 million hours.

 

In addition to the new high-capacity 2.5-inch SSDs, pureSilicon also showcased its latest Renegade Series Solid-State Drives, integrating hardware-based encryption, in accordance with the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS). These drives are also compliant with the MIL-STD-810F, meaning that they can provide for a reliable storage solution in extreme environments.

 

The company hasn't released any pricing details, but the Nitro Series SSDs are expected to hit the market sometime in the third quarter of this year. The Renengade solid state drives are due for market availability in the first quarter of 2009.