Comments on: VIA Announces Upcoming SSD Processor Design Based On Tensilica IP

By: paul alcorn

paul alcorn — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:04:00 +0000

based upon a MIPS processor, while heavily tweaked, will make for an interesting entrant. I am excited to see this, for some reason this announcement reminds me of when the Idilinx BareFoot controller was announced months before launch…. waited waited and waited…and on launch it was a giant leap forward.
Heres hoping my hunch is correct!

By: Josh Zale

Josh Zale — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:15:00 +0000

In reply to Zaxx. Seeing as the controller hasn't yet been released, I wouldn't jump the gun when it comes to performance vs capacity. VIA has been known to have one or two tricks up their sleeve and I wouldn't be surprised if their SSD processor ends up exceeding everyone's expectations. I'm sure we'll find out soon enough.

By: Zaxx

Zaxx — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:06:00 +0000

This is all wonderful and great but by the time they make it to market you’ll have to buy a 1TB size SSD to see these outstanding gains in performance. Like the new Octane…great numbers no matter the data type with with consumer realistic queue depths of 1-4 but if you want to see it’s best performance you have to spend $900 or more for the 512GB drive. Someone, somewhere needs to figure out what it takes to maintain high performance in a reasonable size drive. Atm the SF2281 120gb drives are right on the edge with satisfactory performance without having the step to the 240GB hotrod. I’m hoping the soon to hit 24nm toggle doesn’t take too much of a random write hit (ie the 34nm to 25nm transition we all loved so well…NOT). Imo the Vertex 2 50GB 34nm drives were the last of the ‘poor mans raid’ era.