The American SSD manufacturer BitMicro presented at the Supercomputing 2007 International Conference in Nevada announced that it will come to the market with a 1.6TB solid state disk.
The BitMicro Altima 4GB FC SSD has a 3.5″ housing and is available in sizes from 16GB to no less than 1.6TB. The drive is equipped with a 4Gbps fibrechannel connection and achieves more than 55,000 iops, a conventional hard drive achieves about 300 iops BitMicro can store 640GB of storage per inch of height, making the 1.6TB version likely the space of three regular 3.5″ drives. takes.
The 4Gbit/s fiber channel connection is almost fully utilized, because the SSD medium can deliver a continuous data stream of 230MB/s. BitMicro states that the military, large data centers and scientific institutes have an interest in a fast storage medium. The analysts at IDC to expect that the SSD market will grow by 71 percent per year until 2011, thanks to the ever-increasing demand for higher performance and mobility.