14 DAY TRIAL // Specializing in all sort of flash enabled devices, Silicon Power has just announced they are going to release a new SSD, dubbed the E20, this new offering coming as the fastest solid state disk in the company's arsenal, reaching write speeds up to 230MB/s.
This particularly high write speed is to be accompanied by a 250MB/s read speed, both data transfer rates surpassing a great deal of SSDs that are already available on the market.
In addition, the new E20 drive comes with TRIM command support as well as with an advanced wear leveling algorithm, so the drive's performance should remain constant throughout its life.
Furthermore, the SSD comes with Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) support for monitoring the drive's health, as well as with a pretty innovative system that protects the drive from current fluctuations.
This is achieved by using specially added circuit current sensors which detect fluctuating or abnormal current and tell the drive to behave accordingly.
As far as the controller used by Sillicon Power in this drive is concerned, we don't know that many details apart from the fact that it comes with a DDR2 cache memory, so this definitely isn't a SandForce based offering as that controller doesn't require any cache memory for operating.
As previous Silicon Power drives used JMicron controllers, there is a strong chance this to be true in the case of the E20, although the transfer speeds provided by the manufacturer are well above everything that I am used in seeing from Jmicron-based solutions.
The E20 is available in 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB versions and, although it's pretty safe to assume that the performance level varies according to capacity, Silicon Power did not provide us with any informations in this regard.
In addition, pricing and availability are not know at this time.