New SSD in MLC Hitachi

The Japanese manufacturer launches of new flash drives designed around 25 nanometres engraved MLC flash memory...

Hitachi GST, which will soon fall under the fold of Western Digital, continues to develop its range of flash drives. The Japanese manufacturer presents this day its Ultrastar SSD400M. Found with the architecture of the SSD400S, however, the MLC memory in place of the SLC. It is also of a fineness of engraving of 34 nanometers to a fineness of engraving of 25 nm. Hitachi provides always in IMFT (the joint venture between Intel and Micron). The Ultrastar SSD400M adopt a 2.5-inch format and a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface 6 Gb/s.

Hitachi offers two abilities at this time: 200 GB and 400 GB. Performance are still very good, with sequential 495 MB/s read speeds, and 385 MB/s write. The SSD also reach 56 000 IOPS in reading, and 24,000 IOPS in writing. The Ultrastar SSD400M have a two million hours MTBF, and they are covered by a warranty of five years. They are available now, and therefore complement the ultra-complète range of storage of the constructor.