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1.8" Storage Drives
Market - Game Summary (in Production)
number of 1.8" oems
listed here: -
42
highest capacity
SSD shipping - 256GB - from
PhotoFast.
highest
capacity
SSD announced - 512GB
(using 32Gb/die components) from
SandForce
fastest
1.8" SSDs -R/W speeds of 250MB/s and 220MB/s respectively. R/W IOPS are
6,000 and 5,200 respectively. Cheetah from
Foremay.
biggest
market share:- Toshiba has
shipped over 60 million 1.8" HDDs since 2000. | |
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Viking Enters
SAS SSD Market
Editor:- January 21, 2010 - Viking Modular Solutions
today announced
it is sampling a range of SAS
and SATA compatible
SSDs using
controllers from SandForce.
Form
factors will include:- 1.8",
2.5" and
innovative “non-HDD-like”
solutions for space constrained and/or rugged applications.
SMART Samples "SandForce inside" SSDs
Editor:-
January 5, 2010 - SMART
is sampling the
XceedIOPS
SATA - SLC and "enterprise grade" MLC flash SSDs in
1.8" and
2.5" form factors
- based on the SF-1500 processor from SandForce.
Performance
is upto 30K IOPS
random read/write. SMART uses a combination of
write attenuation
technologies to attain a 5-year projected lifetime for its 400GB MLC
XceedIOPS SATA model ($2,900 oem qty price) in an environment that demands
250MB/s sustained write and a 40% duty cycle.
"The enterprise SSD market appears to be entering a period of
impressive growth. Well-positioned to satisfy the requirements of enterprise
deployments, we expect our XceedIOPS SATA SSDs will provide low cost, superior
performance, low power, and high capacity flexibility, said Alan Gulachenski,
SMARTs VP and General Manager, Enterprise Solid State Storage.
Micron Samples SATA 3.0 SSDs
Editor:- December 2,
2009 - Micron
announced it is sampling
6Gbps
SATA MLC SSDs in 1.8"
and 2.5" form
factors.
Micron's C300 SSD can achieve a read throughput speed of up
to 355MB/s and a write throughput up to 215MB/s.
Editor's
comments:- Long anticipated in StorageSearch.com's
flash SSD Roadmap -
it was inevitable that we would be seeing 6Gbps
SATA SSDs soon,
because several companies have already sampled 6Gbps
SAS SSDs which use the
same physical interface. It was simply a question of when vendors would judge
the market conditions right. (Or pre-announce them first.)
PhotoFast Unveils Fast 1.8" PATA SSDs
Editor:-
November 16, 2009 - PhotoFast
today unveiled a new range of 1.8"
native PATA MLC regular
flash SSDs with internal garbage
collection -the
G-monster-1.8"
IDE V4.
Capacity options include:- 32/64/128/256G. Internal cache
is 64MB, R/W speeds are upto 128MB/s and 90MB/s respectively.
PhotoFast
says that its internal hardware garbage collection makes the SSD especially
suited to traditional OS's which don't have TRIM such as XP. The drive
rearranges itself when the laptop is in idle time. The benefits might not shine
through in server style
benchmarks (which
assume 100% duty cycles) but for real life notebook usage it should work
adequately.
Toshiba Ships Leanest 120GB 1.8" Hard Drive
Editor:-
November 4, 2009 -
Toshiba announced
volume shupments of the industry's most power-conservative SATA
hard drive - the
1.8", 5mm high,
120GB, single platter, 4,200 RPM
MK1235GSL.
Significantly
surpassing 2.5" HDDs in durability it can tolerate up to 1,500Gs of
non-operational shock and 500Gs of operational shock.
pureSilicon Unveils New Military SSDs
Editor:-
October 26, 2009 - pureSilicon
says it will start shipping its Renegade R2 Series 2.5" SATA SLC flash
SSDs later this week.
Sequential R/W speeds are 255MB/s and 180MB/s
respectively. IOPS performance is:- 18,000 IOPS random read: (4K) and ; random
write: 1,200 IOPS @ 4K) and proprietary SiPher data security technology.
The drives are available immediately in a wide range of densities
(4GB, 8GB, 16 GB, 32GB, 64GB, 128GB) in a low profile (9.5mm height)
2.5" form factor
and -40C to +85C operating temperature.
256GB, PATA,
1.8", and encryption
versions will start shipping in Q1 2010.
pureSilicon is dedicated to providing high-performance, rugged storage
solutions to the defense, military, industrial, and government markets, said
Jason Breakstone, founder and CEO of pureSilicon. While many SSD manufacturers
are focusing their efforts on the mass consumer markets, pureSilicon is
committed to designing and delivering technologies that will provide significant
benefits to our customers such as full-disk encryption and
data declassification
methods. Renegade R2 is designed to operate in the harshest conditions.
pureSilicon says the specs it publishes are "steady-state
performance" results. These are achieved by performing proper
preconditioning, which prepares the drive for real-world usage scenarios and
yields realistic performance benchmarks. Other SSD manufacturers claim clean
(new) drive performance specifications on a new drive, and users should expect
to see performance
reductions in real world use as a clean drive settles into its stabilized
(steady) state once the drive is nearing capacity and is consistently
performing garbage
collection, wear leveling, and bad-block management.
Foremay Launches Military SSDs
Editor:- September 21,
2009 - Foremay
announced the SC199 Hi-Rel Series SLC flash SSDs in 1.8", 2.5" and
3.5" form factors which meet
military standards
MIL-STD-810G and MIL-STD-833G.
Operational temperature options include
-40C to approx 100C.
The SC199 Hi-Rel Series SSDs are made with
rugged industrial grade SLC flash, and are geared for
high reliability,
high performance and high ruggedness applications, as well as for commercial
applications in harsh environments such as damp heat tropical forests, deserts,
arctic regions, tundra soil areas, mountains, muddy and dusty lands, wetlands,
oceans, and under water.
Tom's Hardware Reviews an SSD Dozen
Editor:-
September 7, 2009 -Tom's Hardware
has published a
performance
review of a dozen disk-form-factor (1.8" &
2.5") flash SSDs.
Most exceeded 200MB/s R/W throughput. No unpleasant surprises were
reported.
The link, above, takes you to the end of the article -
which contains the useful summary. Alternatively you can
read
the article (from the beginning)
Intel Promises 34nm 1.8" MLC SSDs
Editor:-
July 21, 2009 - Intel
announced a
process
shrink for its
X25-M -
SATA 2.5" MLC flash SSD.
The new 34nm devices deliver
upto 8,800 (4KB) write IOPS and up to 35,000 read IOPS. R/W speeds are 250MB/s
and 70MB/s respectively. R/W latenciy is 65S and 85S. The 160GB model is
priced at $440 (1,000 unit price point).
The X18-M, in a 1.8"
form factor, will begin shipping on 34nm later in the quarter.
1.8" SLC SSD from Foremay
Editor:- July 10,
2009 - Foremay
has recently announced a new 1.8"
SLC flash SSD.
The SATA compatible
SC 199 Cheetah
has sustained R/W speeds of 250MB/s and 220MB/s respectively. Capacity options
range from 16GB to 64GB.
Endurance
for the 16GB device is rated at 87 years assuming 50GB sequential writes per
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1.8" Notebook SSDs |
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Editor:- May 27, 2009 - PhotoFast launched
its G-Monster 1.8"
SATA SSD with
internal 64MB DRAM cache
and upto 128GB capacity.
It supports R/W speeds upto 230MB/s and
160MB/s respectively. The company says - what's important in this type of
notebook product is not just sequential R/W throughput for large blocks - but
also write performance for small random blocks. It claims its 12MB/s (for 4KB
blocks) is best in class. | |
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New Standard
for 1.8" SSDs
Editor:- May 18, 2009 - JEDEC today
published a
new
standard for 1.8"
Slim SSDs.
MO-297 defines the dimensions, layout and connector
position for 54mm x 39mm SSDs with a standard
SATA connector.
"MO-297
is the first document to standardize a physical outline for a solid state drive.
Adoption of this standard has the potential to deliver significant benefits for
the industry by creating a single outline for storage suppliers and systems
manufacturers to use and reference," said Jim Leidy, Business Development
Manager for Tyco Electronics and
Chairman of the JEDEC Task Group behind the effort. Storage ORGs
Skymedi Enters SSD Controller Market
Editor:- May
14, 2009 - Skymedi
has
launched a SATA
SSD controller aimed at the notebook market.
It supports R/W speeds
up to 180MB/s and 150MB/s respectively and upto 512GB capacity.
That
brings the number of companies listed on our merchant market
SSD controller and IP page
up to 17. This growing SSD ecostructure makes it easier for new oems to
enter the SSD market.
1.8" SiliconDrives Get Faster
Editor:- March
17, 2009 - SiliconSystems
today announced it will ship a new, faster -
3rd generation
- of its SLC
SiliconDrives in the 2nd quarter of 2009 - with capacities up to 128GB.
SiliconDrive
III products include 2.5" SATA and PATA and 1.8" SATA products that
offer read speeds up to 100MB/s and write speeds to 80MB/s.
"The
faster speeds and larger capacities of SiliconDrive III will help enable new
multimedia data streaming applications such as IPTV, Video on Demand (VOD) and
digital video surveillance appliances that require a high level of performance
and reliability where failure is not an option" said
Gary Drossel, vp
of product planning at SiliconSystems.
Editor's comments:- SiliconSystems' SSDs have never been the
fastest and I had
always assumed this was because of
design trade-offs
which included more intensive
reliability-related
processes in the on-board controller while coming in at a low power budget. But
in a recent discussion Gary Drossel told me they had some design techniques
in the pipeline which would do all those things plus beef up the speed too.
How Popular are 1.8" Drives?
In February 2009 -
1.8" was the 3rd most popular SSD form factor based on reader
search volume.
- 2.5" SSDs
- PCIe SSDs
- 1.8" SSDs
- 3.5" SSDs
- 1.0" SSDs
SanDisk Offers Cheap Fast SSDs for Q3 Notebooks
CES,
LAS VEGAS - January 8, 2009 - SanDisk Corp today unveiled a new family
of 1.8" and 2.5" MLC flash SSDs that will ship in mid 2009.
SanDisk's
G3 Series
will have capacities (and anticipated MSRPs) as follows:- 60GB ($149), 120GB
($249 ) and 240GB ($499). Anticipated sequential performance is quoted as:-
200MB/s read and 140MB/s write. ...SanDisk profile
Editor's
comments:- SanDisk doesn't quote an IOPS figure for these new SSDs
preferring instead to quote a proprietary 40,000 virtualRPM to indicate how they
compare to
hard drives.
RunCore Announces Notebook Upgrade SSDs
Editor:-
December 29 , 2008 - RunCore
announced 1.8" PATA
SSDs aimed at the notebook upgrade market.
Available with capacity
upto 128GB (retail price $389.99 ) an inbuilt slave
USB port enables users to
easily clone their internal hard
drive using Acronis
True Image (or similar) software. The SSD can then be installed in the notebook
typically giving a 4x speedup.
Toshiba Announces New High Capacity 1.8" flash SSDs
IRVINE, Calif.
- December 18, 2008 - Toshiba Corp. today announced a new family of
MLC flash SSDs with 256GB capacity in 2.5" and 128GB capacity in 1.8"
form factors.
Sampling in Q1 2009, the new SSDs will have R/W
speeds upto 240MB/s and 200MB/s respectively. ...Toshiba profile
SiliconSystems Ships New 1.8" SiliconDrive
Aliso
Viejo, Calif. - November 11, 2008 - SiliconSystems, Inc. announced
shipments of its new 1.8" PATA SSDs with 34MB/s R/W speed and
capacities up to 32GB.
SiliconDrive II 1.8-inch PATA SSDs
feature SiliconSystems' patented PowerArmor, SiSMART and SiSecure integrated
advanced storage technologies that address critical OEM design considerations,
including the elimination of drive corruption due to power anomalies, the
ability to forecast SiliconDrive useable life and the protection of application
data and software IP.
...SiliconSystems
profile, 1.8" storage
drives
Trident Space & Defense Launches Industrial 1.8" SSDs
Torrance,
CA - October 23, 2008 - Trident Space & Defense announced a new
family of ruggedized CF and 1.8" SSDs.
The SLC Compact
Flash SSDs have R/W speeds up to 48/30MB/s and capacities up to 16GB. The 1.8"
drives available with PATA or SATA interfaces in capacities up to 32GB. ...Trident Space &
Defense profile
Toshiba Launches Highest Capacity 1.8" Drive
IRVINE,
Calif. - September 24, 2008 - Toshiba today announced the
industry's first 250GB 1.8-inch HDD.
The 5,400 RPM disk has a
SATA interface and Toshiba's free fall sensor option, which enhances
protection from external shock and vibration events. Peak media transfer rate is
707Mbps. Volume shipments begin in December.
...Toshiba profile
SDK Starts Shipments of 1.89-Inch 120 GB HD Media
Tokyo, Japan -
September 11, 2008 - Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has started commercial
shipments of 1.89-inch hard disk media with storage capacity of 120GB per disk.
To the best of our knowledge, our new 1.89-inch HD media have the
world's highest storage capacity for this size available on the market today.
The new product has been developed by improving the magnetic layer for 1.89-inch
80 gigabyte HD media commercialized in August 2007. SDK is the world's only
commercial producer of 1.89-inch HD media.
...SDK profile
Toshiba Ships 240GB 1.8" HDDs
IRVINE,
Calif. - September 9, 2008 - Toshiba Storage Device Division today
announced the world's first dual-platter 240GB 1.8-inch PATA HDDs.
The 240GB unit uses 33% less power than Toshiba's previous
generation 160GB 3,600 RPM 1.8" model and is aimed at light-weight
mobile PC applications and high-end digital video camcorders, which require high
capacity and ruggedness to protect users' valuable digital assets. The new
series (which all spin at 4,200 RPM) also includes 80GB and 120GB
single-platter models. Toshiba's new 1.8" HDDs will be incorporated into
consumer products shipping this holiday season. ...Toshiba profile,
HDDs,
1.8" drives
Intel Ships Me-too 1.8" MLC SSDs
SANTA
CLARA, Calif. - September 8, 2008 - Intel Corp has begun shipping 1.8"
and 2.5" SATA MLC flash SSDs for laptop and desktop computers.
The
Intel X18-M and X25-M Mainstream SATA SSDs are available in 80GB capacities,
with 160GB versions sampling in the 4th quarter of this year. The 80GB drive
achieves up to 250MB per second read speeds, up to 70MB per second write speeds
and 85-microsecond read latency for fast performance. The 80GB version is priced
at $595 for quantities up to 1,000. T
...Intel profile,
1.8" SSDs,
2.5 inch SSDs
Editor's
comments:- these are low performance products which would rate a yawn if
announced by any other company. The market is waiting to see how Intel will
deliver on its high performance SSD pledges. The company says it will announce a
faster SLC SSD line in the next 90 days.
2 of Samsung's New SSDs Fit into 1.8"
Editor:- September 1, 2008 - Samsung
revealed details of the new form factor for flash SSDs which it started sampling
a few weeks ago.
The dimensions are:- 39mm (L) x 54mm (W) x 4mm
(H).
It's worth comparing these to a classic 1.8" form factor
dimensions - which are 54 mm (W) x 78 mm (L) x 8 mm (H).
You'll
notice that you can pack 2 of the new Samsung SSDs into the same pcb space as a
1.8" drive, and also in half the height.
Available in densities of
8GB, 16GB and 32GB, the new MLC SSDs will be mass produced beginning this
month. The 32GB device will read data (sequentially) at 90MB/s and write
(sequentially) at 70MB/s. ...Samsung profile
SMART Announces New 1.8" SSD
FREMONT, CA - August 11, 2008
- SMART Modular Technologies today announced 6 new SSDs in the Xceed
family of industrial-grade storage solutions.
Among these products
- the SMART 1.8" XceedLite SATA SSD operates at 72MB/s read and 55MB/s
sustained write speeds, and has densities up to 64GB. Designed to operate using
fewer than 1 watt of power in active mode, this new SSD offers longer battery
life, which is essential for ruggedized mobile applications.
Samples of
the six new SSD drives will be available in the 3rd calendar quarter with
general availability expected shortly thereafter. ...SMART profile
Samsung Previews 256GB 1.8" SSD
TAIPEI,
Taiwan - May 23, 2008 - Samsung today unveiled plans to sample the "fastest2
2.5" SATA SSDs in September.
The 256GB MLC flash design will
have a sequential read speed of 200MB/s and sequential write speed of 160MB/s.
A 1.8" version of the 256GB SSD is also expected to be available in Q4.
...Samsung profile
Editor's
comments:- if such a device were shipping in volume today it would be the
fastest 2.5" SSD. But I doubt if it will actually be the
fastest that's
actually available in Q408. See
Predicting Future Flash
SSD Performance .
STEC Announces Fast 1" SSD
SANTA
ANA, Calif - April 21, 2008 - STEC, Inc. announced the MACH4 - a 1"
SATA / PATA SSD.
For a small drive - the MACH4 is fast:- with
sustained sequential reads upto 90MB/s and writes upto 55MB/s. It's expected to
be in mass production at the end of April in capacities up to 32GB. Projected
OEM pricing for the 8GB capacity point is $45.
"For the numerous
applications which were historically challenged by the severe limitations of 1
inch HDDs, STEC is now offering a much more cost-effective, higher capacity and
higher reliability alternative..." said STEC's Patrick Wilkison.
...STEC profile
Toshiba's MLC SSDs in Mass Production
IRVINE,
Calif. - March 18, 2008 - Toshiba has started mass production of MLC
flash SSDs aimed at the notebook market.
The new
Toshiba
SSDs have SATA
interfaces and will be available in 3 form factors:- module,
1.8" and
2.5", and with
upto 128GB capacity. Toshiba says overall performance is better than 5,400
RPM and 7,200 RPM HDDs.
Read / write speeds are 100MB/s and 40MB/s respectively. Initial production is
for Toshiba's own notebooks. ...Toshiba profile
Toshiba's New 1.8" Hard Drive
IRVINE
- February 25, 2008 - Toshiba Storage Device Division today added a
line of 5,400 RPM SATA 1.8" hard disk drives to its product offerings
for mobile PCs.
Available in 120GB and 80GB capacities, these new
HDDs integrate design
elements from Toshiba's flagship 2.5" line to offer enhanced performance
for ultra-thin and light PC applications.
With over 60 million 1.8" HDDs shipped since 2000, Toshiba has
consistently held the #1 position in the 1.8" HDD segment according to
IDC. Toshiba is showing the
new drives this week at the Intel
Mobility Summit in Shanghai, China. Shipments will start in April 2008.
...Toshiba profile
Mtron's New Notebook SSD will be 6x faster than Hard Drive
SEOUL,
South Korea - February 18, 2008 - Mtron Technology Co. Ltd - announced
today that they have completed the development of a new 1.8" ZIF-type SSD
family for laptop PCs and will begin production in April.
Mtron's
new SLC flash SSD has a maximum reading speed of 120MB/s and writing speed of
100MB/s, which is more than 6x faster than a typical 1.8" HDD.
Therefore when it's used in laptop PC and
UMPC,
it delivers much faster performance than a desktop.
Mtron also
released a 1.8" MLC Flash SSD with up to 128GB capacity along with a
maximum reading speed of 110MB/s and writing speed of 40MB/s.
Steve
Jeon, CEO of Mtron, said, "With our new 1.8 inch SSD, Mtron has added
another great product line as a leader in the SSD market, which is expected to
grow into ten billion dollars in 2012. Our new product is a result of careful
market analysis and research of consumer needs."
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