OCZ Technology, known for its range of solid state drives (SSD) has unveiled a new interface that it claims is faster than existing serial ATA (SATA) as well as serial-attached SCSI (SAS), which is commonly used for the enterprise. Called "High-Speed Data Link" (HSDL), OCZ says HSDL is capable of running at speeds of up to 20Gbit/sec of bandwidth per channel, or six times faster than SATA II and three times faster than currently deployed SAS. Several HSDL channels can also theoretically be combined to further bolster the available bandwidth.

OCZ says it developed HSDL to eliminate bottlenecks and allow SSDs to operate at their full potential. The company says that HSDL is an open standard and though it is currently working with equipment manufacturers for mass HSDL adoption, the company did not immediately offer a timeline for rolling out products with the new interface.

It is understood however, that the SSD maker intends to introduce a new 3.5-inch IBIS SSD which uses the HSDL interface. 240GB and 960GB SSD products using MLC chips were mentioned, with performance read and write performance quoted at 750MB/sec.

For more on this story:
- check out this article at The Register
- check out this article at Computerworld

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