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Anobit Genesis SSDs won't hurt your pocket

Firm breaks storage cost barriers
Wed Jun 16 2010, 17:30

ISRAELI firm Anobit has proudly announced its Genesis family of SSDs and talked up their low cost but strong performance.

The firm said that solid state drives have been sprinkled with its Memory Signal Processing (MSP) technology and are the first multi-level cell (MLC) drives to offer the kind of performance that companies are were seeking. MSP, it explained, gives it a write endurance rating of over 50,000 cycles, roughly twenty times higher and at a much cheaper cost than standard MLC systems.

For example, Anobit claimed that it can drive write endurance of "ten full disk writes per day, for five years, or 7,300TB for a 400GB drive, with fully random data (worst-case conditions)".

In a statement that looked like it was pulled out of a poured out Scrabble set, Professor Ehud Weinstein, Anobit CEO said, "For too long, the high prices of SLC SSDs and concerns about MLC SSD endurance have slowed the adoption of flash memory storage in the enterprise. Anobit Genesis SSDs effectively neutralise both of these concerns. By delivering true enterprise-class SSD reliability at affordable MLC SSD prices, Anobit Genesis SSDs unlock the full promise of solid-state enterprise storage."

Continuing the hyperbole, the firm said that it had solved the "Density-Cost-Latency-Endurance paradox", by combining the best parts of SLC SSDs and MLC flash memory. This it said let it achieve the low latencies and high endurance of SLC-based SSDs with the low cost and high density of MLC-based SSDs.

Anobit said that its SSDs will be best suited for use in data centres, and added that they can be used in demanding, transaction-intensive applications and will "provide performance that is orders of magnitude greater than the performance offered by today's hard disk drives (HDDs)".

The Israeli firm Anobit's Genesis SSDs are available for OEMs in 200GB and 400GB capacities. µ

 

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Ano-bits?

Are they what you get after you eat your Ano-weet?

posted by : Dr. Kenneth Noisewater, 17 June 2010 Complain about this comment
Cell not chip

SLC=single level cell, each storage element is a single binary bit

MLC=multi level cell, each cell has 2 states

posted by : von failen, 16 June 2010 Complain about this comment
Cost Is Twice Old Multi layer....

Single Layer is Near $4 Gb Cost at retail, last longer as runs cooler, with NO additional layers of memory stacked up on chip.

Multi layer costs about $2 Gb, yet gets HOT & that cuts life expectancy, mucho.

New device may save memory wear, yet cost is same as Single Layer, about $3.80 gb. Speed is near 200 Mb/s.

drashek

posted by : ?Memory...., 16 June 2010 Complain about this comment
Article Fail

"Anobit Genesis SSDs won't hurt your pocket"

Well why doesn't the article state the cost? Is it aimed at home consumer or data center? Is it even released as a product? What is the point of the article other than a copied and pasted press release?

posted by : Matt, 16 June 2010 Complain about this comment
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