Screaming along at 1Gb/sec throughput…gimme, gimme, gimme.

Sadly, these new SSD’s from Mircron Technology Inc. will be aimed at the high end market and won’t be available for some time yet (”within the next year” is the best estimate we have so far). Note; high end normally means ‘expensive’ but when you selling a device that has a throughput speed four times faster than Intel’s newest SSD, the X25-E, you can afford charge through the nose.

Joe Jeddeloh, director of the vendor’s Advanced Storage Technology Center demonstrated the technology in a video where a readout showed the SSD throughput reaching 800MB/sec. The SDD card was connected to a PCI Express slot which bypasses the SATA/SAS interfaces that are normally be used effectively limiting it to 3Gbit/sec. throughput.

Micron has stated that they are already testing the new technology with a select group but are currently looking for more testers.

According to Micron, these new SSD’s use “multiple channels” and have builtin interleaving 64 NAND chips to achieve its high throughput.

Don’t expect to see this tech in your laptop anytime soon; the initial target is, for example, high end apps that run fibre chacnnel SAN’s i.e. transactional DB’s.

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