Biwin Adding 10-Channel 6Gb SATA NuvoDrive NX SSDs

Biwin America, Inc. announced a 10-channel 2.5-inch 6Gb SATA SSD, the enterprise NuvoDrive NX, offered in 80GB, 160GB and 300GB capacities.

Virtually all current SATA III SSDs have 4- or 8-channel controllers. The NuvoDrive NX’s is based on an new 10-channel controller that alleviates the issue of flash bandwidth on the SATA III bus for high speed sequential transfers. The 10-channel controller also makes popular 80GB, 160GB and 300GB capacities available in a SATA III SSD.

It features a 256MB DRAM cache to accelerate random write performance. It will deliver up to 80,000 4K random write IOPS for both compressible and incompressible data types. It supports sequential read and write speeds upwards of 500MB/s.

These SSDs are equipped with endurance, reliability and security features including: BCH ECC built in, global wear leveling, AES 128 and 256 encryption, native TRIM support, and support for SMART commands.

NuvoDrive NX is sampling to OEMs, and will be in mass production in Q3.

Biwin will showcase a working demo system with the NuvoDrive NX at Computex Taipei, June 5-9 in Nangang Hall.

"The Biwin NuvoDrive NX offers superior write speed compared to existing SATA III SSDs. Its advantage increases in small block random writes. And it beats competing SSDs hands down in 4K random write operations for incompressible data. Technology innovations like the 10-channel controller architecture and beefy DRAM cache make this performance possible," Joe James, VP of WW Marketing, Biwin America.

The company has shipped over 100 million flash products to date.