Israeli Startup Claims SSD Breakthrough

Lucas123 writes "Anobit Technologies announced it has come to market with its first solid state drive using a proprietary processor intended to boost reliability in a big way. In addition to the usual hardware-based ECC already present on most non-volatile memory products, the new drive's processor will add an additional layer of error correction, boosting the reliability of consumer-class (multi-level cell) NAND to that of expensive, data center-class (single-level cell) NAND. 'Anobit is the first company to commercialize its signal-processing technology, which uses software in the controller to increase the signal-to-noise ratio, making it possible to continue reading data even as electrical interference increases.' The company claims its processor, which is already being used by other SSD manufacturers, can sustain up to 4TB worth of writes per day for five years, or more than 50,000 program/erase cycles — as contrasted with the 3,000 cycles typically achieved by MLC drives. The company is not revealing pricing yet."

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Be careful when travellijg to Israel.

[Reservoir Penguin]

Two years ago I made a huge mistake letting my gf convince me she needed dead sea dirt for her chronic illness. The result, me and my rented car got nearly STONED to death by Jewish hassidic (sp?) villagers just off the main road. I understand now it's not polite to take pictures of your synagogues shirtless but common, stoning tourists w/o even giving a chance to explain themselves? It did not happen to me but later I heard stories of people killed by Jewish religious students for kissing on the beach. Israel maybe the most democratic and western like country in the ME bit it ain't America or Europe, it's still fucking ME. Just remember it.