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."

Comments

Re:Cost?

[gandhi_2]

astroturf much?

Re:Another Product from Israel

[jjohnson]

Well if they'd stop oiling the spindle with blood and pituitary glands of Palestinian babies, I'd buy from them again. Christ, it's just about impossible to get that shit out of the rug.

Re:I just glanced at the specs, but Sandforce?

[should_be_linear]

I would't buy Israeli product, given I have several choices. This principle helped in the case of South Africa, so why not repeating it.

Re:hmm...

[The Clockwork Troll]

I don't know about that, but it goes without saying that this SSD won't support a raid.