BitMicro Rolls out 4GB FC SSD

November 26 2008: BitMicro has announced that it is shipping its new 4GB Fibre Channel solid state disk (SSD), a 128GB flash drive aimed at volume data transfers.

The Altima 4GB SSDs are part of BitMicro’s enterprise-ready E-Disk family, with the 3.5-inch drive designed for applications such as streaming video on demand, data mining, data warehousing, online transaction processing (OLTP), medical imaging, and data recording.

BitMicro says that Altima will take full advantage of 4Gb FC technology, with sustained transfer rates of up to 230 MB per second, and up to 55,000 I/O operations per second. Furthermore, the company says the drive can be integrated seamlessly into legacy FC-based storage networks as it is fully compatible with older 1Gbit and 2Gbit FC devices.

“[W]e were very pleased at how the E-Disk Altima 4Gb Fibre Channel SSD came together and successfully passed performance and manufacturability tests for engineering prototypes with flying colors,” said Rudy Bruce, Executive VP for Marketing and Sales and CMO of BiTMICRO Networks. “The enterprise storage market is primed for the entry of solid state storage devices, and our company believes that the E-Disk Altima solid state drives will deliver outstanding storage performance required by IOPS-hungry commercial applications.”

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