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Mobile Mode, Inc., based in Nishi-ku Nagoya-City, Japan markets
a range of flash SSDs which are marketed under the PhotoFast G-Monster brand.
(Discussed in the StorageSearch.com article -
animal brands in
the SSD market.)
see also:-
PhotoFast
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com,
PhotoFast SSD products
overview
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In March 2009 - PhotoFast
launched a
PCIe SSD for the
Windows Vista / XP market - the G-Monster-PCIe Turbo Speed SSD.
Capacity options include:- 256GB, 512GB and 1TB. Both MLC and SLC options are
available. The flash array includes onboard RAID protection and has R/W speeds
upto 750MB/s and 700MB/s respectively.
In
May 2009 - PhotoFast said it had tweaked the performance of its
G-Monster-PCIe Turbo Speed SSD up to 991MB/s write and 969MB/s for reads.
PhotoFast
also 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.
In June 2009 -
PhotoFast launched
the fastest
ExpressCard -
initially for the Japanese market. R/W speeds are 180MB/s and 100MB/s
respectively.
In August 2009 -
PhotoFast disclosed
details of its
G-Monster
Quad Drive SSD which includes 4x RAIDed CFast SSDs in a SATA compatible
100mm x 70mm x 9.5mm module.
Also in August 2009 -
PhotoFast
officially
announced details
of its "1 inch"
CFast compatible MLC SSDs which had been mentioned as a component in its RAID
product launched earlier this month. Capacities are 8, 16 and 32GB. R/W speeds
are 100MB/s and 50MB/s respectively.
In November 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. ...Later:- a product review appeared on
notebookreview.com.
In
Q1 2010 -
PhotoFast became
the first SSD manufacturer to market SSDs using
SandForce controllers
to end users. Previous
SandForce
inside SSDs from other companies were aimed at the server and industrial
markets.
In April 2010 -PhotoFast made its 1st
appearance in the 12th quarterly edition of the
Top 10 SSD Companies
- covering the 1st quarter of 2010.
In October 2010 -
PhotoFast said it
will ship a 256GB USB
SSD for the
MacBook Air at the end of November. Sustained R/W speeds are 250MB/s.
Random R/W speeds are 50MB/s and 30MB/s respectively. It uses a controller from
SandForce.
...Later:-
in November 2010 - a report in
DailyTech.com
said that Apple had put pressure on PhotoFast to withdraw this MacBook Air
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| SSD Pricing -
where does all the money go? |
SSDs are among the most
expensive computer hardware products you will ever buy.
Understanding
the factors which determine SSD costs is often a confusing and irritating
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