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Linkvast Technologies

Linkvast Tech. Inc. is a fabless IC design company based in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan. The company was founded in January 2009 as a spin off from Silicon Integrated Systems.

editor's comments:- July 2010 - Linkvast has been taken back into the fold of Silicon Integrated Systems and is no longer being marketed as a seperate entity.

In February 2009 - Linkvast unveiled a family of 4 channel (32bit/32CE) and 8 channel (64bit/64CE) SATA flash SSD controllers which support all mainstream SLC & MLC flash memory devices. The external DRAM architecture enhances SSD performance and can reduce flash wear out. Package is 279-Balls 15mm x 15mm LBGA.

see also:- Are MLC SSDs Ever Safe in Enterprise Apps?

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the Problem with Write IOPS...........

Editor:- the Problem with Write IOPS - in flash SSDs has achieved some notable mentions since it was 1st published.

Flash SSD "random write IOPS" are now similar to "read IOPS" in many of the fastest SSDs. So why are they such a poor predictor of application performance?

And why are users still buying RAM SSDs which cost 9x more than SLC? - even when the IOPS specs look similar.

This article tells you why the specs got faster - but the applications didn't. And why competing SSDs with apparently identical benchmark results can perform completely differently. ...read the article

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