BiTMICRO introduces 1.6 TB solid-state high performance storage
Posted by Dimitrios Matsoulis on February 15, 2008
Hard-disc? What hard-disc? Spinning platters and moving heads are not yet out of fashion for our personal computers, but in high performance space and military applications expectations are very different. BiTMICRO is very experienced in this field and is now upping the ante by offering 1.6 TB of capacity -up from the previous 832 GB- with the E-Disk Altima Ultra320 SCSI SSD -phew!
It comes in standard 3.5 inch form factor and the transfer rate is a fast 230 MB/sec. What is amazing however, is neither its capacity, nor its data transfer rate. This thing operates in temperatures between -40 and +85 degrees Celsius, can withstand shocks up to 1500 Gs and has a reliability that many devices would envy. BiTMICRO is certainly going to great lengths to ensure manufacturing precision for reliable use of a lifetime.
It all brings to my mind the projected life spans of space craft -like the rovers that still operate succesfully on Mars- that are practically exceeded by many orders of scale. To achieve this, every component is critical for the total system to stay alive, and flash storage like our particular example today is in the forefront of the reliability race.
BiTMICRO is certainly not well known by consumers as its target group is high-tech clients that want the latest and best. I do not want to know the drive’s cost but I suspect that buying a loaded gaming PC with triple nVidia 8800 graphics cards is starting to look like a real bargain…
Link: BusinessWire
