14 DAY TRIAL // Last time we mentioned Super Talent was when it launched 1600 MHz Quad-Channel DDR3 memory, and the company is acting on its other favorite industry field now, that of solid state drives.
According to its own press release, Super Talent considers the members of the TeraNova series, as they are called, to be the fastest solid state drives it ever launched.
For those who know things about the SSD market, even just this much is enough to hint at what the drive is made of.
The SandForce controllers are easy enough to pinpoint, since the SandForce 2200 chips easily outclass Marvell, Indilinx or others.
What might not be as easy to guess is that Super Talent combined the chip with a so-called optimized firmware.
The end result is a line of drives with read and write speeds higher than 500 MB/s (540/520 MB/s read write).
The performance is not the only selling point of the units, of course. Super Talent also strove to give them a high reliability, like data protection in case of power loss.
Furthermore, in its press release, the outfit makes a point of stating that the TeraNova units “also excels in general responsiveness.”
This makes it useful in systems that frequently run Photoshop, Premier, Maya and 3DS Max, etc., since they load and render much faster than not just HDDs (hard disk drives) but also most other SSDs.
Finally, the capacity range of the line is 60 to 480 GB, which means there are four models in total: 60, 120, 240 and 480GB capacities.
Unfortunately, even though shipments are supposed to have already started, Super Talent did not say what price each of these product had.
Then again, it doesn't take much to realize they are definitely not budget sales, even by general SSDs standards, so neither will show up very often in the rigs of anyone who isn't a professional graphics designer or some such.