New Anobit Enterprise 2.5-Inch MLC SSDs

Anobit Technologies Ltd announced its second generation Genesis SSDs, targeted at network and server attached storage, as well as enterprise business and cloud-based applications.

 
Utilizing Anobit’s proprietary MSP (Memory Signal Processing) technology, the new Genesis SSDs achieve endurance of 50,000 program/erase (P/E) cycles and performance of up to 70,000/40,000 IOPS random read/write (IOmeter 2006, 4K block size) and 510 MB/s sequential read/write with non-compressible data, using 2xnm MLC NAND.
 
Anobit’s MSP technology is comprised of proprietary signal processing algorithms that compensate for physical limitations of the NAND flash, combined with error correction and flash management schemes, resulting in an improvement in endurance, performance and system cost.

Specifically, the MSP technology enables SLC (one bit-per-cell) endurance and performance with MLC (two bits-per-cell) NAND, and MLC endurance and performance with TLC (three bits-per-cell) NAND, resulting in a significant reduction in cost-per-bit. The MSP technology is field-proven, with over 20 million Anobit MSP-powered flash controllers shipped year to-date to OEMs for embedded applications.
 
Supporting user data writes of 10 times the drive capacity per day for 5 years, Anobit’s new SSD product offering includes the Genesis-T series 2.5 inch 6Gb/s SATA 3.0 compliant SSD and the Genesis-S series 2 .5 inch 6Gb/s SAS 2.0 compliant SSD, available in 100 GB, 200 GB and 400 GB configurations today, with 800 GB and higher capacities to follow.
 
"The price and availability of consumer-grade MLC is critical for wide-scale adoption of SSDs, however its endurance and performance limitations are prohibitive," said Arun Taneja, Founder, Taneja Group. "Anobit’s MSP-powered SSDs bridge this gap, enabling the use of consumer-grade MLC without any compromise in endurance and performance, and thus leading the way to wide adoption of SSDs for enterprise applications."
 
The new Genesis-T Series and Genesis-S series SSDs are sampling at select OEM customers, with volume availability in October, 2011.