Comments on: LSI AIS 2012: Everspin Debuts ST-MRAM Ultra-High Storage Performance Via DRAM-like DDR3 Interface

By: renosablast

renosablast — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:41:00 +0000

In reply to grogthegreat. It certainly makes one wish they had money to invest in this new tech.

By: grogthegreat

grogthegreat — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:53:00 +0000

In reply to Ultimoblaze. It isn't a cache system for SSDs.....yet. At this point it is just non-volatile memory that has yet to be put into actual products. Everspin, from the article, seems to be sending review samples of the memory to various companies who will test it and decide if they want to include it in one of their products. I'm sure one of those products will be a SSD using this as memory as a cache for the NAND. Eventually we may see SSDs using this memory instead of NAND. Since this first chip is only 8MB, that will be awhile.

By: Ultimoblaze

Ultimoblaze — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:58:00 +0000

So it is a cache system for SSDs? How can we RAID it?

By: grogthegreat

grogthegreat — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:26:00 +0000

Wow. This is one of those rare times when one of those “scientific breakthrough” articles actually resulted in a real and significant product. This will completely change the enterprise non-volatile memory market in the years to come. Can you imagine a SSD with 500x times 4k write performance? I think it is about time we get SATA4!