Mtron - 2007 to 2009
Mtron Co., Ltd., with headquarters in Gyeonggi-do, Korea , is the
new pioneer in the Flash
Solid State Disk world. Flash SSD is an innovative storage device with
much faster speed and higher reliability than those of the conventional
magnetic disk (HDD).
Mtron is targeting wide application areas with its high performance Flash SSD,
ranging from portable consumer electronic market such as
notebook PC,
camcorder storage to enterprise / industrial high-end market. Mtron also
develops DRM based MMC business with its advanced technology of flash memory
control.
http://www.mtron.net
see also:-
Mtron
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:- March 2010 - Mtron (which appears to
be no longer in business) burst onto the SSD market in February
2007 -
when - amid competing claims from various other oems Mtron launched the fastest
2.5" PATA SSD -
with 80MB/s sustained write. In the same month they placed their first ads
here on
StorageSearch.com.
One
of the funny things for me (looking back on the early days of the company) was
that - at the start of their advertising period here on StorageSearch.com - the
marketers in Mtron were still deciding what the SSD module label would look
like - so for a short period the ad didn't have a picture - just a blank white
space with a note saying "image not yet available." But such was the
market hunger for fast products - the datasheet became popular even without a
photo.
Mtron achieved high popularity with our readers - and regularly
appeared in the quarterly
top 10 SSD oems list
in the period 2007 Q2
to 2009 Q1. Mtron's
highest rank in those days was #2 - just below
Memoright. And that
was a sign that users in the
2.5" and
3.5" SSD markets
are usually more interested in the product than the company. And when your
company is no longer leading the performance / reliability / price / capacity
charts (or whatever the current hot topic may be) then interest starts to
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Mtron milestones in
SSD market
history
Mtron burst onto the SSD market in February
2007 - when - amid competing claims from various other oems Mtron launched
the fastest 2.5" PATA SSD - with 80MB/s sustained write.
In the
same month they placed their first ads here on
StorageSearch.com. Mtron
advertised here on the mouse site for 15 months and were so successful at
attracting oem partners and industry recognition that they didn't need to do any
more for a long while.
In
May 2008 -
Toshiba acquired
approximately $30 million of shares in
Mtron.
In June
2008 - Mtron said it
will supply SSDs to Hynix.
Also
in June 2008 - Mtron unveiled details of its new 8 channel controller
technology which the company says will enable R/W throughput upto
260/240MB/s and 8,000 random write IOPS (using 4KB blocks) in flash SSD
products shipping in Q1 2009.
In April 2009 -
Mtron was listed #4 in
the 8th quarterly edition of the -
Top 10 SSD Companies
You
may be surprised by how many manufacturers oem Mtron's SSDs. A new article
published this month -
3 Easy Ways to Enter
the SSD Market - includes that info and a lot more besides.
In
June 2009 - Mtron
was featured in a new article which looked at
the most popular
products on StorageSearch.com in recent years.
November 2009
- I see that Mtron has
published a useful company
history on its own web site.
March 2010 - Mtron's website
has been dead for a while. It appears the company is no longer in business. | |
Notes from SSD market history
The
product shown below, was the most
popular product
here on StorageSearch.com in the period August 2007 to October 2007. |
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| We have
hundreds
of SSD articles on StorageSearch.com |
Here, below, are some
examples.
- SSD
Market History - lists product and technology milestones in the 30 years of
the SSD market upto the end of 2009.
- RAM Cache
Ratios in flash SSDs - it's important to know the underlying RAM cache
architecture - even if you're happy with the R/W and IOPS performance.
- 2010 - 1st Fizz
in the SSD Bubble? - even the dogs in the street know this is going to be a
multibillion dollar market. Greed will play as big a part as technology in
shaping the
SSD year ahead.
- Reaching for the
petabyte SSD - looks into the far distant future and proposes that the
way we think about storage will change - from being a cost overhead (today) to
being a profit center. More (storage) will be better - if enterprises can
leverage their data (and automatically grow new data) with upcoming SSD and
search-engine enabled software technologies.
- the pros and cons of
using SSD ASAPs - auto tuning SSD appliances are a new category of SSD
which entered the market in the 2nd half of 2009 to accelerate servers without
needing human tune-ups. How can you tell if they are right for you? And how
well do they work?
- the Problem
with Write IOPS - in flash SSDs - long established as a useful performance
modeling metric - this article explains why some specs are exaggerated when
applied to flash SSDs - or predict the wrong results for many common
applications.
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