BitMicro Networks Inc. today will announce that it is putting the finishing touches on an 832GB version of its E-Disk Altima 2.5-in. Serial ATA flash solid-state drive.

Manufacturers can begin testing the new solid-state disk drive this summer, according to Fremont, Calif.-based Bit Micro. The device is slated to start shipping in volume by late-2008, the company added.

Bit Micro would not disclose pricing plans for the new drive.

The vendor was set to unveil the NAND flash storage drive Monday at the International Consumer Electronics Show 2008 show in Las Vegas.

BitMicro’s E-Disk Altima.

The new E-Disk Altima drive will provide sustained rates of up to 100MB/sec. and up to 20,000 I/O operations per second, BitMicro said. The device features a SATA 3Gbit/sec.

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BitMicro has announced a flash memory-based solid state drive (SSD) with wide-ranging capacities of up to 1.6TB.

The drive, which comes in a 3.5-in. format and supports 4Gbit/sec. Fibre Channel connectivity, could take on a core element of the hard disk drive market, which uses the same format.

SSDs access data in microseconds, instead of the millliseconds that traditional hard drives use to retrieve data. The BitMicro E-Disk Altima 4Gb FC delivers more than 55,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS) and has a sustained data transfer rate over 230MB/sec. By comparison, a fast hard drive for example will run at around 300 IOPS.

BitMicro said its new line of SSDs range in storage capacity from 16GB to 1.6TB. The company Web site says it can reach the maximum capacity of 640GB in a 1-in.

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BitMicro Networks Inc. unveiled details of the first product in its next-generation E-Disk Altima flash solid state drive family on Tuesday at the Defence Systems & Equipment International Exhibition in London.

The new flash memory-based device will begin shipping by March 2008, the Fremont, Calif.-based company said.

Featuring capacities ranging from 4GB to 416GB, BitMicro’s 2.5-in. E-Disk Altima E2A133BL ATA-133 model will be geared toward large sites looking to upgrade from systems based on Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment. The new solid-state hardware offers ATA/ATAPI-7 PATA specifications and supports PIO 0-4, DMA 0-2 and UDMA 0-6 data-transfer modes, according to BitMicro officials.

The new drive offers throughput of up to 133MB/sec.

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