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An interesting find at CES was a new SSD created by Xi3 for use in their modular computer systems, these systems being just over 4″ x 3″ 3″ in size.
Their new SSD contains the designation of mSATAmax and, considering that it will be available in capacities up to 1TB and have performance of 1GB/s read and write, this just may be the most powerful SSD we see in such a small computer package.
The Xi3 mSATAmax SSD product sheet lists it as having a 12Gb/s transfer rate, however, we believe its 1GB/s transfer speeds are achieved much as we recently saw with the Acer S7 Ultrabook where 2 x SATA 3 SSDs are present on one PCB and RAIDED to reach the listed perfomance.
Specifications list 1GB/s read and write with up to 160,000 IOPS at low 4k random aligned write disk access. Capacities range from 120GB to 1TB 128-bit AES compliant data encryption. The physical size of this SSD is 46mmx85mmx5mm and it is ONLY compatible with systems that contain a Xi3 mSATAmax interface. Release dates and pricing have not been set.
What systems have the Xi3 interface.. or will have?
To the best of our knowledge, the only systems that will be able to use this SSD are Xi3 modular systems.