Super Talent Unveils 2TB Solid-State Drives

From X-bit Labs: Super Talent, a leading supplier of memory and flash products, has announced a series of one of the largest solid-state drives (SSDs) in the world. The new RAIDDrive SSDs will be aimed at gaming personal computers, servers and workstations, however, their pricing is more than likely to be rather enormous.

“RAIDDrive SSDs are a quantum leap ahead of existing SSDs in sequential transfer speeds due to our RAID architecture combined with the latest in flash technology and the bandwidth of the PCI Express interface. RAIDDrive shatters previous storage system bottlenecks and sets a new standard in performance,” said CH Lee, chief operating officer of Super Talent.

Super Talent’s RAIDDrive supports sequential read speeds of up to 1.4GB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 1.20GB/s. The RAIDDrive – which operates flash memory chips in RAID mode to boost performance – features 1GB of DRAM cache and utilizes PCI Express 2.0 x8 interface. Performance of the new RAIDDrive is even higher than maximum speed of OCZ Technology’s Z-Drive (up to 500MB/s read speed and up to 470MB/s write speed).

RAIDDrive SSDs are available to OEMs and system integrators directly from Super Talent. OEM pricing for the 1TB RAIDDrive GS is $4999. The price of higher capacity and/or SLC flash-based SSDs could be too high not only for gamers, but also for workstation users. According to Jon Peddie Research market research firm, average selling price of a workstation was just $1929 in Q2 2009, therefore, $4999 or higher price point for a data storage device is very high even for workstation market.

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