Angelbird
Technologies GmbH, founded in 2009 and based in Vorarlberg, Austria designs
high speed SSDs optimized for the
consumer SSD and
music media professional markets.
see also:-
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Editor's comments:- March 2014 - It's been many years since I
first heard from Angelbird. As my main product interests are in the enterprise
and mission critical markets (rather than consumer SSDs) - and
world leading SSD
companies (rather than geographically niche companies) I suppose that's
only natural.
For related companies and directories - take a look at
these pages on StorageSearch.com
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Editor's (original pre-launch) comments:-
November 2010 - Angelbird is a small company, founded in
2009 in the UK
(but later headquartered in Austria) which says it's developing a low entry
cost, capacity-expandable high performance
PCIe SSD - which it
calls Wings.
Industry reports - and the company's own web site - talk about an
imminent launch date.
Although the company has generated some pre-launch hype on various
consumer SSD forums - it took over 30 days to respond to online queries I
made using its web contact form. I would have phoned - but no phone number was
listed.
Nice graphic images on its site, however. See also:-
animal brands in
the SSD market
Here's the email I got from
Davide
Rutigliano, Founder, Angelbird (November 25, 2010) which says more about
the products.
"Sorry for the late reply, we have been overwhelmed
with requests.
Each one of our drives can process well over 50,000 IOPS. A
RAID made with four of such drives ought to produce very satisfactory results,
although as you can understand, results will vary depending on the drives used
on the board. We can only account for our own drives, designed especially for
our Wings.
We will have enough time to discuss everything in further detail once
we are ready to ship, which should be very, very soon."
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"Flash wear out still
presents a challenge to designers of high IOPS flash SSDs as the intrinsic
effects at the cell level get worse with each new (planar) chip generation.
Although 3D nand may be the turning point at which raw intrinsic
memory endurance stops worsening (or gets better) - 3D could also introduce
new types of failure mechanism and R/W distrurbance sensitivities too." |
| SSD endurance - the
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PCIe SSDs for use in
enterprise server acceleration have been shipping in the market since 2007.
It's one of the most popular SSD subjects pursued by our readers (and has been
since 2009).
With over 100 million enterprise PCIe ports already shipped - the
converging PCIe SSD / server market is well positioned to expand into new
applications. |
| the PCIe SSD directory on
StorageSearch.com | | | |
