The firm said that solid state drives have been sprinkled with its Memory Signal Processing (MSP) technology and are the first multi-level cell (MLC) drives to offer the kind of performance that companies are were seeking. MSP, it explained, gives it a write endurance rating of over 50,000 cycles, roughly twenty times higher and at a much cheaper cost than standard MLC systems.
For example, Anobit claimed that it can drive write endurance of "ten full disk writes per day, for five years, or 7,300TB for a 400GB drive, with fully random data (worst-case conditions)".
In a statement that looked like it was pulled out of a poured out Scrabble set, Professor Ehud Weinstein, Anobit CEO said, "For too long, the high prices of SLC SSDs and concerns about MLC SSD endurance have slowed the adoption of flash memory storage in the enterprise. Anobit Genesis SSDs effectively neutralise both of these concerns. By delivering true enterprise-class SSD reliability at affordable MLC SSD prices, Anobit Genesis SSDs unlock the full promise of solid-state enterprise storage."
Continuing the hyperbole, the firm said that it had solved the "Density-Cost-Latency-Endurance paradox", by combining the best parts of SLC SSDs and MLC flash memory. This it said let it achieve the low latencies and high endurance of SLC-based SSDs with the low cost and high density of MLC-based SSDs.
Anobit said that its SSDs will be best suited for use in data centres, and added that they can be used in demanding, transaction-intensive applications and will "provide performance that is orders of magnitude greater than the performance offered by today's hard disk drives (HDDs)".
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