At the CES 2008 show in Las Vegas, flash solid state disk pioneer BiTMICRO Networks announced its plan to launch an 832GB version of the E-Disk Altima SATA flash SSD in 2.5-inch form factor. The drive will utilize the multi-level cell type of NAND flash, which doubles the number of bits stored per memory cell compared to the single-level cell NAND. BiTMICRO will be using its EDSA and LUNETA controllers to optimize the performance of the E-Disk Altima SATA flash SSD; estimates show sustained rates of up to 100MB/s and up to 20,000 I/O operations per second.
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