The CloudSpeed 500 SATA 6 Gbit/s solid-state disk drive leverages cost effective MLC flash in an enterprise-class unit. Using a suite of enterprise features and endurance enhancement technologies, the drives can achieve up to 5x higher endurance than consumer devices.
Available in capacities from 60- to 480-Gbytes, the drive yields up to 500 Mbytes/s sustained read/write performance and 60K/20K random read/write IOPS. It offers a five year warranty and features backup-power circuitry to ensure the highest level of reliability, an MTBF of 2 M hours, and UBER of less than 1 in 1018 bits read. ($240 for the 120 Gbyte drive — samples Q2.)
by Jim Harrison
SMART Storage Systems , San Jose , CA , United States
Jim Goudreau 510-624-8268
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