Silicon Power Announces Ultra-Fast E20 SSD
Silicon Power introduced a new, turbo-charged 2.5-inch SSD with TRIM and GC support.
Tuesday Silicon Power revealed a new 2.5-inch SATA SSD, the E20. The drive reportedly uses a proprietary technology that allows for read speeds up to 250 MB/s and write speeds up to 230 MB/s, surpassing similar SSD speeds on the market today.
Silicon Power's E20 offers a variety of features including built-in DDR2 DRAM Cache Memory, circuit current sensors, Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) support, and TRIM Command and Garbage Collection Technology support.
"With E20’s built-in DDR2 DRAM Cache Memory, even during continuous intensive-write situations, computers shall lag no more," the company said. "This feature not only enhances SSD’s read and write performances, it also extends SSD’s lifespan."
The new SSD will also utilize built-in ECC to guarantee data reliability, and use the company's "wear-leveling" technology to expand its lifespan. Other notable features include low power consumption, resistance to shock and vibrations, noiseless operation, no latency delay and no seek errors-- typical SSD benefits.
The E20 will arrive in four capacities: 32 GB, 64 GB, 128 GB and 256 GB. Unfortunately, Silicon Power did not provide pricing or availability, so stay tuned.
But the Revodrive is faster.
Anyway, would have liked SP (Silicon Power) to have implemented an SF controller =P I won't mind though if they have price/gig lower than other competitors.
Revodrive v2??
True, but. What price?
Revodrive 50GB $200
Crucial C300 128GB $275
Revodrive 960GB $3,359
SSD 1TB $2,530
"With E20’s built-in DDR2 DRAM Cache Memory, even during continuous intensive-write situations, computers shall lag no more," the company said. "This feature not only enhances SSD’s read and write performances, it also extends SSD’s lifespan."
Why not use DDR5 instead for even better performance?
Dont most SF1200 based drives do 270-285MB/S, and have been on the market for months. So it in fact is not surpassing similar SSD's and if it is turbocharged, then its a V6 going up against V8s.
I want a 6B/s intel controller.
A arm and a leg!
as mroe competition comes the prices will keep droppign and before you know it at least boot drives will be realistic
... maybe one day 1TB SSD's will be atainable at the $1 per gig and be down to $1k in stead of the current $4k
I think I might buy the Micro Center 64GB SSD, it uses the SandForce 1200 chips which allow for some of the fastest SSD speeds available today.
(It's only $99) Although I'd certainly like a higher capacity drive for the same price...
DDR5 is expensive and DDR2 is stable enough. Mind you, it's built in so the connection and speed should be great.
You would think it should help with responsiveness on short-term intensive tasks that saturate the ability of the NAND controller and NAND chips to respond. It's basically adding another layer of cache that should be faster than the (main) NAND chips.
If the DRAM controller has good logic and guesses correctly what the user needs to get from the drive most of the time, then this might be a winner.
On the other hand, if they are just out to say that they were the first to add DRAM cache, but do a sloppy implementation of it, then it will be useless.
This is what killed the first hybrid drives (sloppy implementation with too little NAND cache) and what makes the current Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drives a success, with good controller logic implementation with enough NAND cache to make a difference.
I hope Silicon Power gets the technology right and also offers the drives at a reasonable price. A premium for better performance is okay, but a steep premium would be a mistake in the ever more competitive and price sensitive SSD market.
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