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Shane McGlaun (Blog) - December 9, 2008 1:21 PM

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New SSDs are designed specifically for enterprise use where high-performance is required

SSDs are evolving into two specific categories with the low-end being SSDs that are aimed at consumers for use in notebook and netbook computers at lower price points. The high-end SSDs are aimed at enterprise users looking for speed and willing to pay higher prices to get it.

Super Talent has announced new SSDs today that are intended for enterprise use. The new line is called UltraDrive and promises to be twice as fast as the quickest SATA HDDs available today. The SSD line will offer capacities up to 256GB.

The UltraDrive LE SSDs are for server environments and offer high IOPS and sequential read speeds of 230MB per second and sequential write speeds of 170 MB per second. UltraDrive LE SSDs use SLC NAND flash and is available in 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB capacities.

Super Talent COO C.H. Lee said in a statement, "The UltraDrive LE represents a quantum leap forward in storage performance that is simply staggering. It excels in every metric that’s relevant to data centers: sequential and random read and write speeds, transaction rates and access and seek times. It also has a considerable advantage over 10,000 RPM hard drives in power consumption and MTBF. This product sets a new standard in enterprise storage."

Super Talent is also offering an UltraDrive ME version that has read speeds of 200 MB per second and write speeds of 160 MB per second. Capacity for the ME version is up to 256GB. Both the ME and LE SSDs will be available in January 2009. Pricing is unannounced at this time. Super Talent is already offering a line of consumer SSDs at low prices.

When asked if this latest batch of SSDs use the infamous JMicron controller which is known for stuttering during write operations, Super Talent Director of Marketing Joe James responded with a simple "No, they do not".

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By amanojaku on 12/9/2008 1:43:48 PM , Rating: 5

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When asked if this latest batch of SSDs use the infamous JMicron controller which is known for stuttering during write operations, Super Talent Director of Marketing Joe James responded with a simple:

1) Kick to the nuts
2) Pimp slap
3) "What the !$@& do you think?"

RE: Alternative answers

By TheSpaniard on 12/9/2008 2:28:35 PM , Rating: 2

I believe (1) would be the correct answer

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RE: Alternative answers

By diego10arg on 12/9/2008 4:31:42 PM , Rating: 2

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It also has a considerable advantage over 10,000 RPM hard drives in power consumption and MTBF.

Why don't they compare them against 15k RPM harddrives...?

Anyways, I'd love to see an ORACLE DB running on 3x64Gb drives.

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RE: Alternative answers

By Souka on 12/9/2008 7:09:13 PM , Rating: 2

better MTBF?

Hmm... mechanical drives have a proven and predictable lifespan... SSDs? not yet...and I keep reading reports of corrupted data, performance issues from data integrity, etc.

But yeah... SSD will/do rule....I believe my company is lookng at a SSD setup on our RedHat Oracle system early next year.

BTW, dumping windows servers for red-hat....hands down the best performance and stability improvement you can do with an Oracle system

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RE: Alternative answers

By Reclaimer77 on 12/9/2008 9:21:13 PM , Rating: 2

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Hmm... mechanical drives have a proven and predictable lifespan

Since when ? Hard drives fail just like anything else can.

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RE: Alternative answers

By gstrickler on 12/9/2008 5:41:59 PM , Rating: 1

That deserves a 6.

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When Will MS fix Vista, XP to better handle SSD

By Webreviews on 12/9/08, Rating: 0

RE: When Will MS fix Vista, XP to better handle SSD

By Reclaimer77 on 12/9/2008 10:02:52 PM , Rating: 2

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Windows does a lousy job of handling SSD. SSD performance is an issue with XP and Vista. SSD controllers actually have to compensate for how bad Windows handles SSD.

Pure ignorance. SSD's didn't exist when Vista was being developed in the first place.

Windows OS's file systems are designed to minimize disk fragmentation. Which is the exact OPPOSITE of what you want with an SSD. This is why Vista works " lousy " with SSD's. The entire way the OS handles I/O is counter intuitive to what you would want for an SSD. Again, this is by DESIGN and its not a fault of Vista.

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SSD controllers actually have to compensate for how bad Windows handles SSD.

You don't know what you are talking about. Again, SSD controllers maximize date fragmentation randomly on purpose to increase the life of the memory. The fact that this works against Vista's file system is not Microsoft's problem.

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RE: When Will MS fix Vista, XP to better handle SSD

By kontorotsui on 12/10/2008 4:12:54 AM , Rating: 1

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The entire way the OS handles I/O is counter intuitive to what you would want for an SSD. Again, this is by DESIGN and its not a fault of Vista.

It is not a bug, it is a feature!

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RE: When Will MS fix Vista, XP to better handle SSD

By Reclaimer77 on 12/10/2008 11:41:15 PM , Rating: 2

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It is not a bug, it is a feature!

Its neither. Don't you get it ? OS's are built to run on HARD DRIVES, where you don't WANT data fragmentation if it can be avoided.

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Whee!

By Motoman on 12/9/2008 2:36:30 PM , Rating: 2

I really like this technology...and I'm kind of a fan of Super Talent too.

I just wish this stuff would get price-competitive with traditional hard drives...would be great to actually be able to afford these things in workstations and gaming rigs, if not in basic desktops.

RE: Whee!

By salimbest83 on 12/10/2008 8:06:30 PM , Rating: 2

yea..
still hoping to get one of these and put it inside my gaming rig..just that..
..i dont know anything bout server..

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The Essential Solution

By East17 on 12/9/2008 4:04:41 PM , Rating: 2

If these companies want to reach high volumes of sales they should offer some "essential solution" that would appeal the end-user. In my opinion, such a solution should look like a 16 GB drive that has 160 MB/s read speeds to be sure that the single drive is faster than a standard RAID matrix and at least 80 MB/s write speeds to be also faster than a standard RAID matrix. And also they should be able to read/write groups of small files faster than 50 MB/s. Also, and here's what bugs me, they should have cache memory that's at least able to transfer data with 300 MB/s.

Sell me such a device with 89$ and I'll buy 3 of them immediately .

Also, they should REALLY start making such SSDs with IDE interface for older laptops and computers. A lot, and I mean, A LOT of laptop owners would pay to have a HDD that's faster 90 MB/s READ/WRITE speeds . I agree that you don't need 160 MB/s for a IDE drive but, while on a desktop system you can have more drives and a 16 GB OS BOOT drive should be enough, on a laptop, there should be such drives with 60 GB or 80 GB capacities and over 90 MB/s speeds that should also fit the 99$ and 129$ price envelopes .

Think what such a drive upgrade would mean for those laptop owners that have HDD’s with 30 MB/s average read speeds or lower.

RE: The Essential Solution

By Lifted on 12/9/2008 9:26:58 PM , Rating: 2

You can buy a WD Scorpio Black and it will do that now.

320GB @ 7.2k for ~$100. I get 90MB/s right now, so you don't need wait for SSD's to hit this price unless you're require their sturdiness.

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ME product line uses MLC FLASH

By tygrus on 12/10/2008 12:47:45 AM , Rating: 2

The 'ME' models use MLC FLASH and has lower rating for date retention (5yrs vs 10yrs) and 10% of write endurance (8.8yrs vs 87.7yrs for 16GB models @ 50GB Write-Erase/day).
http://www.supertalent.com/products/ssd.php