832GB NAND Drive

BiTMicro has just announced an 832GB NAND drive.

This is the largest 2.5″ NAND drive yet announced and places NAND technology firmly in competition with magnetic media for mainline storage applications.

NAND drives use a form of flash memory. As such, they have no moving parts and are therefore much more durable and reliable than traditional hard drives.

In addition, as NAND drives do not suffer from the tradition seek time delays inherent in any media designed with rotating disks, NAND drives can perform faster than magnetic or optical media.

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This new drive is estimated to support 20,000 I/O operations per second and a sustained transfer rate of 100MB/sec.

Currently, price is the main limitation to the adoption of NAND drive technology. As memory prices decrease, NAND drives should slowly replace magnetic media for storage applications.

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