World's Fastest & Largest SSD Announced Comments

i'd happily join the army if it meant i could get my hands on one of those.

Guys, guys, guys... gigabytes or terabytes? Please fix it...

So that's 4GB of SSD storage operating at nearly 300MB per second
is that really the largest size 4GB? should that read TB?

4 GB! Shame on you! I guess you mean 4 TB. If it was 4 GB I would be ripping the HDs out of all the Acorn PCs lying around and touting them to the MoD for €2500 a pop :P

"So that's 4GB of SSD storage operating at nearly 300MB per second" me thinks that's 4TB of lovely storage, not 4GB.

"In quad array, PureSilicon also claims the Nitros will approach the performance ceiling of SATA II. So that's 1TB of SSD storage operating at nearly 300MB per second"

So 4 was right, as it's a quad array. Only capacity was mistyped (GB/TB).

There is one minor factual error in the tittle of this article though :P. It is only the largest 2,5" SSD announced. The largest SSD is this one from BitMicro: http://www.bitmicro.com/press_news_releases_20071113.php
A 3,5" 1,6 TB monster, running on a fibre channel though and not SATA.

Oh Helmore! We were enjoying the banter, really we were!!!!

At least its a step in the right direction for the industry - both form factors now reach or exceed 1TB, and as such seriously threaten MechDDs. The sooner they're gone the better methinks..

I wonder how much R&D is financed by the american military. I mean, I admire the utilitarian strategy of developing high tech toys for the IT hipsters, but if I was an American tax payer I might be less excited about it.

@ Jesper: I think it goes both ways mate... some fringe technology advances are inspired or developed by military agencies with epic R&D budgets, but then a lot of staple diet military technology runs on, by consumer standards, extremely outdated hardware. Tried and tested beats fast and feature heavy in a lot of these situations.

A lot of modern "high-tech" aerospace projects still utilise hardened 80386 CPUs and ISA cards on certain instrumental devices for instance... anything from fighter jets to military satellites. I even heard an ancedote recently about many of the NASA Shuttle's onboard systems consisting of 486/Pentium I era IBM Thinkpads.

Generally speaking these sort of defence projects are 10-20 year rigorous design-development-testing-manufacturing processes. So even the modern components picked for the latest USAF super sekrit invisible plasma-powered stealth drone bomber today will be hideously out of date by the time it actually rolls off the production line.

That said, the US military is quite possibly the world's largest money-sink in any case. Many of their tax payers appear to be fully supportive because of the belief that it's a necessity. Whether that belief is right or wrong is probably a discussion for another place and another time. ;)