14 DAY TRIAL // Memoright is definitely not one of the most well-known SSD manufacturers out there, but that doesn't change the fact that the company has just announced it will enter a new series of solid state disks that make use of MLC NAND chips and come in a 2.5-inch form factor.
Dubbed the STM series, these new drives were designed in order to provide a cost effective SSD solution with a maximum storage capacity of no less than 256GB.
The company's press release further states that Memoright made a name for itself in the military and industrial sector, becoming the leading global supplier of SSDs for military applications.
In order to achieve this feat and to provide its users with the high reliability grades that it claims, the company uses its own circuit design and a close-examination manufacturing process, the STM-25 supporting the SATA II interface.
Furthermore, the drives are available in a wide range of storage capacities such as 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 1.2-inch and 1.8-inch versions of the STM Series SSDs being also available for small form factor applications and ultra-potable laptop computers.
As far as performance is concerned, Memoright states the STM-25 SSDs exceed read speeds of 240MB/s and write speeds of 170MB/s in IOMeter Benchmark tests, the same benchmarking application also returning 24,000/17,000 read/write IOPS, although no information about the type of workload used is available.
Since STM-25 SSDs come with a 64MB built-in DRAM cache, it's highly likely these SSDs use a JMicron controller, but no official information is available in this regard.
Unlike most other SSD manufacturers, Memoright will ship the STM-25 series with its own Health Doctor software that monitors and detects temperature, erase counts, bad blocks, spare blocks and other data on the SSD, as well as SSD operating conditions and performance indicators.
All this information is then used to calculate the SSD's useful life, info being displayed through a customized graphics interface.
No information about availability and pricing has been made public until now.