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Start-up Claims SSD Achieves 180,000 IOPS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the chestnuts-roasting-over-an-open-cage dept.

Lucas123 writes "Three-year-old start-up Pliant Technology today announced the general availability of a new class of enterprise SAS solid state disk drives that it claims without using any cache can achieve up to 180,000 IOPS for sustained read/write rates of 500MB/sec and 320MB/sec, respectively. The company also claims an unlimited number of daily writes to its new flash drives, guaranteeing 5 years of service with no slowdown. 'Pliant's SSD controller architecture is not vastly different from those of other high-end SSD manufacturers. It has twelve independent I/O channels to interleaved single level cell (SLC) NAND flash chips from Samsung Corp. The drives are configured as RAID 0 for increased performance.'"

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  1. Yay. by 2names · · Score: 1, Funny

    Neat.

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  2. "The company refused to release [...] retail price by ibsteve2u · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're fishing for a price point? Quick, everybody make a comment to the effect that such a drive is only worth about $10...

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  3. awesome by KingPin27 · · Score: 2, Funny

    This looks like a pretty good device. Tho i haven't heard much about them until recently I'm still pretty skeptical about their claimed lifespan - something that would be able to handle 24/7 consistent read/write for a number of years. The other thing that leaves me scratching my head is the missing DRAM cache -- I thought the need to store information then write it in buffer was kind of important especially with writing as fast as SAS is supposed to be able to transfer it. If these were hitting the shelves today i'd probably wait it out.

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  4. Re:Congrats by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can claim that I have confirmed it if you like.

  5. Re:"The company refused to release [...] retail pr by Yvan256 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only worth about 10$? You're crazy, I'd pay up to 20$ for such a drive!

  6. Re:Congrats by Netcraft+Confirms+It · · Score: 4, Funny

    But I can't, and that's what really matters.