SanDisk unveils dramatic performance boost for SSD

SanDisk, on Wednesday, announced a new flash memory management system called Extreme Flash File System (ExtremeFFS) that it claims can work up to 100 times faster than the existing generation of solid-state drives (SSD). One feature of ExtremeFFS essentially allows data to be written to the disk without erasing and rewriting nearby stored data, according to Don Barnetson, senior director of marketing. SanDisk went as far as to predict that the performance of SSDs will improve by "a factor of four" in 2009 over that of current-generation SSDs. This will put them at approximately six times faster than the newest 2.5-inch hard drives. In addition, the company also proposed a virtual RPM (vRPM) standard which compares the performance of an SSD with that of an equivalent hard disk.  With big-leaguers Intel, Samsung and Seagate in the SSD race as well, it'll be an interesting 2009 ahead for SSDs.

To read more about this story:
- check out this article from the Computerworld.com

Related Articles:
Intel finally shows of SSDs
Samsung starts mass producing 128GB SSD
Seagate plans 2TB SSD for next year