We are excited to offer E-Disk® Altima SATA flash solid state drive as a PC and enterprise storage alternative offering the best-in-class capacity, performance and reliability. This latest product pre-announcement seeks to establish BiTMICROs commitment to deliver solid state storage in all market applications," said Rudy Bruce, Executive VP for Marketing and Sales and CMO at BiTMICRO Networks. The drive offers SATA 3.0 Gbps support and hot pluggable capabilities to personal computing and enterprise applications requiring high capacity and high performance yet affordable solid state storage. BiTMICRO further complements this SSD-level performance with enterprise-level capacities, as the E-Disk® Altima SATA flash solid state disk can reach capacities of up to 832GB of pure solid-state flash storage. The 2.5-inch E-Disk® Altima E2A3GM flash SSD is estimated to deliver sustained rates of up to 100 MB per second and up to 20,000 I/O operations per second. Whats more, BiTMICRO will be using its EDSA and LUNETA controllers to optimize the performance of the E-Disk® Altima SATA flash SSD, allowing the drive to reach peak data transfer and I/O rates that are comparable with current SLC flash-equipped solid state drives. International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Las Vegas, NV January 7, 2008, Flash solid state disk (SSD) pioneer BiTMICRO Networks announced at the CES 2008 show in Las Vegas, Nevada its plan to launch an 832GB version of the E-Disk® Altima SATA flash SSD in 2.5-inch form factor.Į-Disk® Altima E2A3GM flash SSD will utilize the multi-level cell (MLC) type of NAND flash, which doubles the number of bits stored per memory cell compared to the single-level cell (SLC) NAND, effectively increasing data density at low price points. Latest NAND Flash Technology Will Allow BiTMICRO to Offer up to 832GB Capacity in Compact Form Factor, Paving the Way for Mass SSD Deployment in the Performance and Capacity-Hungry Yet Price-Sensitive Personal Computing and Enterprise Markets
The embargo date for this release is January 7, 2008.īiTMICRO Set to Launch Industrys Highest Capacity 2.5-inch Serial ATA Solid State Disk with E-Disk® Altima SATA Flash SSD I'm going to CES next week in Vegas.īiTMICRO Networks is pre-announcing the latest addition to its E-Disk Altima SSD family, the 832GB capacity Serial ATA Solid State Disk in 2.5 form factor, at the forthcoming CES 2008 in Las Vegas.īelow is a copy of the news release entitled BiTMICRO Set to Launch Industrys Highest Capacity 2.5-inch Serial ATA Solid State Disk with E-Disk® Altima SATA Flash SSD. Warranty: 60 Day PowerbookMedic Warranty Repair Guides: Click to go to our Free Instructional Guides page.Just got this in my email. This provides three distinct advantages:Ĭompatible With: N/A Suggested Items for Installation: While a traditional drive has drive motors to spin up the magnetic platters and the drive heads, all the storage on a solid state drive is handled by flash memory chips. The majority of this comes from the fact that the drive does not have any moving parts. Solid state drives have several advantages over the magnetic hard drives.
Apple has released a firmware update to fix some issues, but not all problems have been resolved. Please note that some Macbook models have reported compatibility issues between 256GB SATA II drives and the SATA controller inside the machine.
This is a brand new Kingston 256GB Solid State Drive for the Macbook and Macbook Pro models.