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Super Talent Technology Corporation based in San Jose,
California, designs and manufactures a full range of DDR, DDR2, and DDR3 memory
modules and Flash based storage devices for computers and consumer electronics.
An ISO 9001 certified company, Super Talent utilizes its state-of-the-art
factories and leading-edge components to produce award winning products with
outstanding reliability. Super Talent is an active member of the JEDEC and ONFI
standards bodies. With over 250 patents, the company was ranked 38th in the
2009 Wall Street Journal's Patent Scorecard™ for the IT industry.
see also:-
Super
Talent - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
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Super Talent - recent milestones from
SSD market
history
In December 2008 -
Super Talent
Technology said it will sample a new range of 2.5" SATA flash SSDs in
January 2009. The SLC unit has 128GB capacity and R/W speeds upto 230/170
MB/sec. The MLC unit has 256GB capacity and R/W speeds upto 200/160 MB/sec.
In April 2009 -
Super Talent
Technology pre-announced its RAIDDrives SSD product line. This connects
via PCIe and supports
up to 2TB of RAID5 protected MLC flash storage. R/W performance is upto
1.2GB/s and 1.3GB/s respectively. More details are promised in June 2009.
In May 2009 -
Super Talent
announced new
firmware
for its
UltraDrive
ME series 2.5"
SSDs. This includes what the company calls a "Performance Refresh Tool"
to fix performance degradation problems in its earlier generation of SSDs.
Although some commentators on the web have attributed such problems to
fragmentation - that's completely incorrect!
Since the access time
for random reads in a well designed SSD is nearly identical for all locations
- the real problem in Super Talent's SSDs (and some models from
Intel) was due to badly
designed products which were rushed to market too soon without adequate
testing.
For a deeper look at these issues see
Can you trust flash
SSD specs & benchmarks? - published nearly a year ago - which first
alerted buyers to these problems. See also:-
SSD controllers and IP.
In
March 2010 -
Super Talent
Technology
announced
imminent availability of a new
encrypted
USB 3
flash SSD - with
upto 256GB capacity. The USB 3.0 SuperCrypt is a true SSD (with
wear-leveling).
Internally the module (95 x 34 x 15.4 mm) is a
SATA SSD with a USB
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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.
- 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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