BitMicro Extends Further into Terabyte Territory
BitMicro Extends Further into Terabyte Territory
February 7, 2008: BitMicro have announced the E-Disk Altima Ultra320, combining up to 1.6 Terabytes of SSD storage capacity on an SCSI flash-bred drive.
The San Diego based company has announced what it claims to be the world’s first Ultra320 SCSI flash drive. The newest E-Disk Altima comes with a 30,000 Input/Output per/second speed and a throughput of 230mb/second.
“This is a huge technological leap that virtually erased the advantages of other storage solutions in terms of capacity and performance” said Rudy Bruce, executive vice president at BiTMICRO Networks.
The 1.6 Terabytes of storage will come encased in a 3.5 inch form-factor and BitMicro is boasting an extremely rugged package, capable of handling temperatures of between -40 degrees and 85 degrees, so if you’re planning on a datacentre in the Antarctic, then this may be the SSD of choice for your data centre.
"Military, industrial, and enterprise applications need rugged, reliable, and high performance storage solutions manufactured to their strict requirements," says Jeff Janukowicz, Research Manager for Solid State Drives at IDC. "SSDs deliver in these demanding applications that are not well served by other storage solutions. IDC expects over 60% of the worldwide SSD revenue in 2008 to come from these market segments."